LEADER 03915nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910814681103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6486-2 010 $a0-8014-6480-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464805 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074479 035 $a(OCoLC)769190456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10516000 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551163 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354442 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551163 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10525078 035 $a(PQKB)11017150 035 $a(OCoLC)966836556 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51840 035 $a(DE-B1597)478697 035 $a(OCoLC)979684338 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138276 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10516000 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767977 035 $a(DE-B1597)496367 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138276 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074479 100 $a20050131d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeath and salvation in ancient Egypt /$fby Jan Assmann ; translated from the German by David Lorton ; abridged and updated by the author 205 $aAbridged and updated by the author 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (504 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4241-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 418-478) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTranslator's Note --$tIntroduction: Death and Culture --$tPart One. Images of Death --$t1. Death as Dismemberment --$t2. Death as Social Isolation --$t3. Death as Enemy --$t4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements --$t5. Death as Separation and Reversal --$t6. Death as Transition --$t7. Death as Return --$t8. Death as Mystery --$t9. Going Forth by Day --$tPart Two. Rituals and Recitations --$t10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature --$t11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming --$t12. The Night of Vindication --$t13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb --$t14. Provisioning the Dead --$t15. Sacramental Explanation --$t16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance --$t17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Immortality --$tAfterword: Egypt and the History of Death --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $a"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. 606 $aEschatology, Egyptian 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects 607 $aEgypt$xReligion 615 0$aEschatology, Egyptian. 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects. 676 $a299/.3123 700 $aAssmann$b Jan$0144097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814681103321 996 $aDeath and salvation in ancient Egypt$94193707 997 $aUNINA