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Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

Bickel, S.
Díaz-Iglesias, L.

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Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Book 257

Literary CriticismAncient Egypt

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ISBN10: 904293462X
ISBN13: 9789042934627
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jul 31 2017
Pages: 695
Weight: 3.25
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Ancient Egyptian funerary literature encompasses a complex, dynamic, andopen group of texts and images selected to be deposited in mortuarysettings. Despite this shared final purpose, they derive from a varietyof spheres of origin (ritual, apotropaic, medical, legal) and can beconcurrently used in different contexts. They further exhibit a semanticdensity and were transmitted across the centuries, and subjected tomodifications as they were incorporated into new social, religious, orfunctional environments.
The twenty contributions assembledin this volume have the three-fold objective of: offering newtheoretical and methodological perspectives to evaluate the structure, content, and history of these compositions; opening challenging avenuesfor new interpretations; or presenting novel textual and iconographicsources. With a wide chronological spectrum of topics addressed, themanifold approaches collected here aim to challenge traditionalconceptions and procedures of analysis and to introduce new sets ofideas.

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