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"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt.
Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.
Contents
Translator's NoteIntroduction: Death and CulturePart One. Images of Death
Chapter 1. Death as Dismemberment
Chapter 2. Death as Social Isolation
Chapter 3. Death as Enemy
Chapter 4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements
Chapter 5. Death as Separation and Reversal
Chapter 6. Death as Transition
Chapter 7. Death as Return
Chapter 8. Death as Mystery
Chapter 9. Going Forth by DayPart Two. Rituals and Recitations
Chapter 10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature
Chapter 11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming
Chapter 12. The Night of Vindication
Chapter 13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb
Chapter 14. Provisioning the Dead
Chapter 15. Sacramental Explanation
Chapter 16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance
Chapter 17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: ImmortalityAfterword: Egypt and the History of DeathNotes
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