Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt (Yale Egyptological Studies)

Seven important essays on the study of ancient Egyptian religion. Contents: The cosmology of the pyramid texts (James P Allen); Textual criticism in the coffin texts (David P Silverman); State and religion in the New Kingdom (Jan Assmann); The natural philosophy of Akhenaten (James P Allen); Horus or the crocodiles: a juncture of religion and magic in late Dynastic Egypt (Robert K Ritner); Psychology and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead (Alan B Lloyd); Death and initiation in the funerary reliion of ancient Egypt.Allen, James P. is the author of 'Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt (Yale Egyptological Studies)', published 1989 under ISBN 9780912532189 and ISBN 0912532181.