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Kingship and the Gods
This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.
Hermetica
The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and the Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the received wisdom of the Bible. This first English translation based on reliable texts, together with Brian P. Copenhaver's comprehensive introduction, provide an indispensable resource to scholars in ancient philosophy and religion, early Christianity, Renaissance literature, and history, the history of science, and the occultist tradition in which the Hermetica have become canonical texts.
Die Heilkunde im alten Ägypten
Erstmalig wurden - in einer interdisziplinaren Studie - alle greifbaren medizinischen Texte Altagyptens zusammengestellt und auf ihre Konkordanz mit den Befunden der altagyptischen Palaopathologie bzw. historischen Anthropologie hin untersucht. Aus bislang noch nicht medizinhistorisch erschlossenen Inschriften und religiosen Texten konnte als neuer Deutungshintergrund neben religios-kultischen Vorstellungen auch eine sog. Nilstromlehre freigelegt werden. In Analogie zum lebenspendenden Nil nahm der altagyptische Arzt die Existenz eines korpereigenen Verdauungs- und Ableitungsstroms an, dessen Regulierung und intakte Kanalisation mit Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit, dessen Stockung und aVerstopfungo dagegen mit Krankheit gleichgesetzt wurden. Eine naturalistisch-spekulative Sichtweise, deren konsequente Anwendung bei der Deutung fachliterarischer Texte nicht nur eine Revision der bisher gultigen anatomisch-physiologischen, pathologischen und diagnostischen Interpretationen erzwingt, sondern auf weite Strecken auch die bislang bestehende Diskordanz zwischen den Ergebnissen palaopathologischer und philologischer Forschung aufzulosen vermag. (Franz Steiner 2000)
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome. As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity.
The Mind of Egypt
The Mind of Egypt presents an account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic and archaeological sources, Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection.
Ancient Egyptian Literature
A beautifully translated collection sampling all the major genres of ancient Egyptian literature. Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel. Yet, because of its very antiquity and the centuries during which the language was forgotten, ancient Egyptian literature is a newly discovered country for modern readers. This anthology offers an extensive sampling of all the major genres of ancient Egyptian literature. It includes all the texts from John Foster’s previous book Echoes of Egyptian Voices, along with selections from his ...
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