Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

By S Bickel

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904293462X
• ISBN13: 9789042934627
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 695 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.7"