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Development of religion and thought in ancient Egypt; lectures delivered on the Morse Foundation at Union Theological Seminary / by James Henry Breasted.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935.
- Series:
- Morse lectures.
- The Morse lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- History.
- Egypt--Religion--History.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 379 pages ; 20 cm.
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912.
- Contents:
- Nature and the state make their impression on religion
- earliest systems
- Life after death
- the sojourn in the tomb
- death makes its impression on religion
- Realms of the dead
- the pyramid texts
- the ascent to the sky
- the earliest celestial hereafter
- The Osirianization of the hereafter
- Emergence of the moral sense
- moral worthiness and the hereafter
- scepticism and the problem of suffering
- The social forces make their impression on religion
- the earliest social regeneration
- Popularization of the old royal hereafter
- triumph of Osiris
- conscience and the book of the dead
- magic and morals
- The imperial age
- the world state makes its impression on religion
- earliest monotheism
- Ikhnaton
- The age of personal piety
- sacerdotalism and final decadence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935. Development of religion and thought in ancient Egypt.
- ISBN:
- 9781340863371
- 1340863375
- OCLC:
- 1171444
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