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Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Andrew Reisner Prehistoric Religion A Study in Prehistoric Archaeology by : E O James
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Andrew Reisner Prehistoric Religion A Study in Prehistoric Archaeology written by E O James and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Andrew Reisner Prehistoric Religion A Study in Prehistoric Archaeology by E. O. James
Book Synopsis THE EGYPTIAN CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY by : GEORGE ANDREW REISNER
Download or read book THE EGYPTIAN CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY written by GEORGE ANDREW REISNER and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by : George Reisner
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Reisner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a word, Egypt presents the most ancient race whose manner of life is known to man. From the beginning of its history-that is, from about 4500 B.C.-we can trace the development of a religion one of whose most prominent elements was a promise of a life after death. It was still a great religion when the Christian doctrine of immortality was enunciated. In the early centuries of the Christian era, it seemed almost possible that the worship of Osiris and Isis might become the religion of the classical world; and the last stand made by civilized paganism against Christianity was in the temple of Isis at Philae in the sixth century after Christ. (Large Print)
Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by : George Reisner
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Reisner and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That Egyptologists have on some important points not yet reached agreement appears in Professor George Andrew Reisner's account of 'The Egyptian Conception of Immortality' - Harvard's Ingersoll lecture for 1911. He traces it from the prehistoric race to the time of hte Ptolemies, together with the funeral ceremonies which in successive periods were associated with it. Its salient peculiarity, the Osiris belief, he regards as a Semitic importation from Asia, a form of the Tammus or Adonis story, and as originally designed for the glorifying of royal personages." -Outlook "The lecture is popular in style and of unusual interest." -Booklist "The author is a skilled excavator and is learned in his special lines. His reputation rests on solid grounds." -The Nation "Supplies interesting data regarding pre-historic necrology." -The New York Times The earliest belief in immortality is that which is shown to us by the burial customs of the primitive race,--the prehistoric Egyptian race. About 4500 B.C. we find the Egyptian race was just emerging from the Stone Age. All the implements and weapons found are of flint or other stone. The men of that time were ignorant of writing, but show a certain facility in line drawings of men, plants, and animals. We have found thousands of their graves which all show the same idea of death. Each person was buried with implements, weapons, ornaments,--no doubt those actually used in life,-- with a full outfit of household pots and pans, and with a supply of food. The man was dead, but he still needed the same things he used in ordinary life. By a fortunate chance we have even recovered bodies accidentally desiccated and preserved intact in the dry soil. These bodies do not show any trace of mutilation, mummification, or any other preparation for the grave except probably washing. The dead body was simply laid on a mat in the grave, covered with a cloth and a mat or a skin, and then with clean gravel. But with it was placed all those things which the man might need if his life were to go on in some mysterious, unseen way, as life went on among those on earth. Possibly his relations as in later times brought offerings of food to the grave, but here even the dry soil of Egypt fails to furnish positive evidence. All this shows a plain simple belief in the persistence of the life of a man as distinguished from the body --a belief widely prevalent among primitive people. It contains nothing unusual, and is probably perfectly explicable psychologically by means of dreams. There is little or no change in this underlying belief to be observed in the burial customs of the Egyptians during the late predynastic period. Copper weapons and implements succeed stone in the graves. All those objects in whose manufacture the new tools are used show changes of technique and form. It is even curious to note that some of the older stone and flint objects, some of the older pots and pans, are still made as a matter of tradition. The importance of this is not to be overlooked. For centuries men had used flint knives and they had baked their bread in flat mud saucers set in the ashes. For the centuries these flint knives and these cakes with their saucers had been placed in the graves. Gradually metal knives and better bread pans displaced these more primitive objects in daily life; but the older primitive objects were still placed in the graves as a matter of tradition. CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Sources of the Material III. The Ideas of the Primitive Race IV. The Early Dynastic Period V. The Old Empire VI. The Middle Empire VII. The New Empire VIII. The Ptolemaic-Roman Period IX. Summary
Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by : George Andrew Reisner
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Andrew Reisner (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt and Palestine.George Andrew Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were George Andrew Reisner I and Mary Elizabeth Mason. His father's parents were of German descent.He married Mary Putnam Bronson, with whom he had a daughter, also called Mary.In 1889, Reisner was head football coach at Purdue University, coaching for one season and compiling a record of 2–1.Upon his studies at Jebel Barkal (The Holy Mountain), in Nubia he found the Nubian kings were not buried in the pyramids but outside of them. He also found the skull of a Nubian female (who he thought was a king) which is in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. Reisner believed that Kerma was originally the base of an Egyptian governor and that these Egyptian rulers evolved into the independent monarchs of Kerma.He also created a list of Egyptian viceroys of Kush. He found the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I, the mother of King Khufu (Cheops in Greek) who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. During this time he also explored mastabas. Arthur Merton, a fellow member of the Cairo Rotary Club, remarked in 1936 in the aftermath of the Abuwtiyuw discovery that Reisner "enjoys an unrivalled position not only as the outstanding figure in present-day Egyptology, but also as a man whose soundness of judgement and extensive general knowledge are widely conceded."He met Queen Marie of Romania in Giza.In Egypt, Reisner developed a new archaeological technique which became a standard in the profession, combining the British methods of Petrie, the German methods of Dorpfeld and Koldewey, his own American practicality and his skill for large-scale organization. In 1908, after a decade in Egypt, Reisner headed the Harvard excavation of Samaria.
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Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
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Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be the oldest. The chronological dispute as to the relative antiquity of the two countries is of minor importance; for while in Babylonia the historical material is almost entirely inscriptional, in Egypt we know the handicrafts, the weapons, the arts, and, to a certain extent, the religious beliefs of the race up to a period when it was just emerging from the Stone Age. In a word, Egypt presents the most ancient race whose manner of life is known to man. From the beginning of its history-that is, from about 4500 B.C.-we can trace the development of a religion one of whose most prominent elements was a promise of a life after death. It was still a great religion when the Christian doctrine of immortality was enunciated. In the early centuries of the Christian era, it seemed almost possible that the worship of Osiris and Isis might become the religion of the classical world; and the last stand made by civilized paganism against Christianity was in the temple of Isis at Philae in the sixth century after Christ.It is clear that a religion of such duration must have offered some of those consolations to man that have marked all great religions, chief of which is the faith in a spirit, in something that preserves the personality of the man and does not perish with the body. This faith was, in fact, one of the chief elements in the Egyptian religion-the element best known to us through the endless cemeteries which fill the desert from one end of Egypt to the other, and through the funerary inscriptions.It is necessary, however, to correct the prevailing impression that religion played the greatest part in Egyptian life or even a greater part than it does in Moslem Egypt. The mistaken belief that death and the well-being of the dead overshadowed the existence of the living, is due to the fact that the physical character of the country has preserved for us the cemeteries and the funerary temples better than all the other monuments. The narrow strip of fat black land along the Nile produces generally its three crops a year. It is much too valuable to use as a cemetery. But more than that, it is subject to periodic saturation with water during the inundation, and is, therefore, unsuitable for the burials of a nation which wished to preserve the contents of the graves. On the other hand, the desert, which bounds this fertile strip so closely that a dozen steps will usually carry one from the black land to the gray, -the desert offers a dry preserving soil with absolutely no value to the living. Thus all the funerary monuments were erected on the desert, and except where intentionally destroyed they are preserved to the present day. The palaces, the towns, the farms, and many of the great temples which were erected on the black soil, have been pulled down for building material or buried deep under the steadily rising deposits of the Nile. The tombs of six thousand years of dead have accumulated on the desert edge
Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by : George Andrew Reisner
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be the oldest. The chronological dispute as to the relative antiquity of the two countries is of minor importance; for while in Babylonia the historical material is almost entirely inscriptional, in Egypt we know the handicrafts, the weapons, the arts, and, to a certain extent, the religious beliefs of the race up to a period when it was just emerging from the Stone Age. In a word, Egypt presents the most ancient race whose manner of life is known to man. From the beginning of its history-that is, from about 4500 B.C.-we can trace the development of a religion one of whose most prominent elements was a promise of a life after death. It was still a great religion when the Christian doctrine of immortality was enunciated. In the early centuries of the Christian era, it seemed almost possible that the worship of Osiris and Isis might become the religion of the classical world; and the last stand made by civilized paganism against Christianity was in the temple of Isis at Philae in the sixth century after Christ.It is clear that a religion of such duration must have offered some of those consolations to man that have marked all great religions, chief of which is the faith in a spirit, in something that preserves the personality of the man and does not perish with the body. This faith was, in fact, one of the chief elements in the Egyptian religion-the element best known to us through the endless cemeteries which fill the desert from one end of Egypt to the other, and through the funerary inscriptions.It is necessary, however, to correct the prevailing impression that religion played the greatest part in Egyptian life or even a greater part than it does in Moslem Egypt. The mistaken belief that death and the well-being of the dead overshadowed the existence of the living, is due to the fact that the physical character of the country has preserved for us the cemeteries and the funerary temples better than all the other monuments. The narrow strip of fat black land along the Nile produces generally its three crops a year. It is much too valuable to use as a cemetery. But more than that, it is subject to periodic saturation with water during the inundation, and is, therefore, unsuitable for the burials of a nation which wished to preserve the contents of the graves. On the other hand, the desert, which bounds this fertile strip so closely that a dozen steps will usually carry one from the black land to the gray, -the desert offers a dry preserving soil with absolutely no value to the living. Thus all the funerary monuments were erected on the desert, and except where intentionally destroyed they are preserved to the present day. The palaces, the towns, the farms, and many of the great temples which were erected on the black soil, have been pulled down for building material or buried deep under the steadily rising deposits of the Nile. The tombs of six thousand years of dead have accumulated on the desert edge
Book Synopsis Egyptian Conception of Immortality by : George Andrew Reisner
Download or read book Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Reisner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Egyptian Conception of Immortality Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan. 26, 1893. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul by : Alfred Wiedemann
Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul written by Alfred Wiedemann and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Egyptian Conception of Immortality the Ingersoll Lecture, 1911 by : Reisner George Andrew
Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality the Ingersoll Lecture, 1911 written by Reisner George Andrew and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Egyptian Conception of Immortality written by George Andrew Reisner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity - With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom - With Additional Lecture on The Egyptian Conception on Immortality by : Samuel Sharpe
Download or read book Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity - With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom - With Additional Lecture on The Egyptian Conception on Immortality written by Samuel Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1863, this vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, looking in particular at their influences on modern Christianity. Also included is a the 1911 lecture "The Egyptian Conception of Immortality" by George Andrew Reisner. Samuel Sharpe (1799 - 1881) was an English Unitarian banker. In his spare time, he made substantial contributions to Biblical translation and the field of Egyptology. Contents include: "Founding of the Monarchy", "Accession of Seneferu and End of Archaic Period", "Accession of Unas", "Death of Pepy II and Fall of the Monarchy", "Rise of Feudalism", "Restoration of the Monarchy", "Marriage of Usertesen to Nefert", "Advent of the Hykos", "Expulsion of the Hykos by Aahmes", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul by : Alfred Wiedemann
Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul written by Alfred Wiedemann and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul is an illustrated overview of a mysterious part of the ancient Egyptian religion.
Book Synopsis From Light Into Darkness by : Stephen S. Mehler
Download or read book From Light Into Darkness written by Stephen S. Mehler and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have popular modern religions developed out of practices in ancient Egypt? Did religion in Egypt represent only a shadow of the spiritual practices of prehistoric people? This work explores the teachings of the King Akhenaten and the real Moses, the true identity of the Hyksos, and Akhenaten's connections to The Exodus and the Rosicrucian Order.
Book Synopsis Yearning for Immortality by : Rune Nyord
Download or read book Yearning for Immortality written by Rune Nyord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2025-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity. Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians’ obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune Nyord shows, even today, our understanding of the Egyptian afterlife has been formulated to a striking extent in Christian terms. Nyord argues that this is no accident, but rather the result of a long history of Europeans systematically retelling the religion of ancient Egypt to fit the framework of Christianity. The idea of ancient Egyptians believing in postmortem judgment with rewards and punishments in the afterlife was developed during the early modern period through biased interpretations that were construed without any detailed knowledge of ancient Egyptian religion, hieroglyphs, and sources. As a growing number of Egyptian images and texts became available through the nineteenth century, these materials tended to be incorporated into existing narratives rather than being used to question them. Against this historical background, Nyord argues that we need to return to the indigenous sources and shake off the Christian expectations that continue to shape scholarly and popular thinking about the ancient Egyptian afterlife.
