Gods and men in Egypt 3000 BCE to 395 CE 1st Edition by Francoise Dunand, Christiane Zivie Coche ISBN 0801488532 9780801488535

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ISBN 10: 0801488532

ISBN 13: 9780801488535 

Author: Francoise Dunand, Christiane Zivie-Coche 

In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of anthropology, the authors discuss such topics as the identities, images, and functions of the gods; rituals and liturgies; personal forms of piety expressing humanity’s need to establish a direct relation with the divine; and the afterlife, a central feature of Egyptian religion. That religion, the authors assert, was characterized by the remarkable continuity of its ritual practices and the ideas of which they were an expression.

Throughout, Dunand and Zivie-Coche take advantage of the most recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship. Gods and Men in Egypt is unique in its coverage of Egyptian religious expression in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Written with nonspecialist readers in mind, it is largely concerned with the continuation of Egypt’s traditional religion in these periods, but it also includes fascinating accounts of Judaism in Egypt and the appearance and spread of Christianity there.

Table of contents:

1. What Is a God?

2. Cosmogonies, Creation and Time

3. The Gods on Earth

4. Of Men and Gods

5. Death Will Come

6. Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

7. The Reactions of the Priests

8. The Creation of Sarapis

9. The Vitality of the Traditional Religion

10. New Gods and Cults

11. Problems and Controversies

12. The World of the Temples and Its Activities

13. From Learned Religion to Popular Religion

14. Funerary Beliefs and Rituals

15. Conclusion

16. Maps

17. Bibliography

18. Index

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