The Dwellers on the Nile: The Life, History, Religion and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Forside
Courier Corporation, 1. jan. 1977 - 326 sider
The author begins with a history of ancient Egypt and a list of its kings, and then plunges into the daily life of the people from the cradle to the grave and beyond - their manners and customs, trade and commerce, their literature and religious beliefs. Dr. Budge examines the Egyptian family and school, the furniture, jewelry, food and drink of the household, Egyptian society, Egyptians at work and play, the Egyptian religions and its temples, its numerous gods and priests, Egyptian writing, literature and knowledge of medicine, astrology and alchemy. The book concludes with the Egyptian dead, Heaven and Hell, and the future life.
 

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HISTORICAL OUTLINE
1
THE CRY OF THE OPPRESSED IN EGYPT
18
THE EGYPTIAN HOUSE AND ITS FURNITURE
51
PHARAOH AND HIS SUBJECTS
81
THE EGYPTIANS AT WORK
103
EGYPTIAN TEMPLES GODS AND PRIESTS
144
EGYPTIAN WRITING
172
THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS
188
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
235
THE FUTURE LIFE
269
BIBLIOGRAPHY
292
INDEX
299
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309
144
316
269
Opphavsrett

THE EGYPTIAN RELIGION
201

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E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.

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