Yearning for Immortality
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83825-0 (ISBN)
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Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians’ obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune Nyord shows, even today, our understanding of the Egyptian afterlife has been formulated to a striking extent in Christian terms. Nyord argues that this is no accident, but rather the result of a long history of Europeans systematically retelling the religion of ancient Egypt to fit the framework of Christianity. The idea of ancient Egyptians believing in postmortem judgment with rewards and punishments in the afterlife was developed during the early modern period through biased interpretations that were construed without any detailed knowledge of ancient Egyptian religion, hieroglyphs, and sources.
As a growing number of Egyptian images and texts became available through the nineteenth century, these materials tended to be incorporated into existing narratives rather than being used to question them. Against this historical background, Nyord argues that we need to return to the indigenous sources and shake off the Christian expectations that continue to shape scholarly and popular thinking about the ancient Egyptian afterlife.
Rune Nyord is associate professor of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology at Emory University. He is the author of Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts and Seeing Perfection: Ancient Egyptian Images Beyond Representation, and he has edited or coedited several anthologies.
Introduction
1. Antiquity’s Antiquity: Ancient Sources
2. Explaining the Remains: Medieval and Renaissance Sources
3. The Egyptian Afterlife in Universal History: 1650–1700
4. Death and Initiation: 1700–1750
5. Describing Egypt: 1750–1798
6. Invasion and Aftermath: 1798–1822
7. The Decline of Metempsychosis: 1822–1860
8. Emergence of the Modern Paradigm: 1860–1885
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
Acknowledgments
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83825-0 / 0226838250 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83825-0 / 9780226838250 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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