Ann Rosalie David - Religion and magic in ancient Egypt

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Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt

Rosalie David took a BA degree in Ancient History with Egyptology at University College London. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Liverpool explored the ritual use and function of the ancient Egyptian temple.

In 1972 she began her academic career at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, where she is currently Professor and Keeper of Egyptology. Her work has focused on the initiation and development of biomedical studies in the field of Egyptology, and in 1973 she inaugurated and has continued to direct the internationally renowned Manchester Egyptian Mummy Research Project. For many years she has also taught university courses on ancient Egyptian religion.

Professor David has lectured in many countries and on cruises in Egypt and the Middle East, and has also been consultant and presenter for scientific television documentary films. She has published many articles, and has edited or authored over twenty books of which the most recent are The Experience of Ancient Egypt (Routledge, 1999), Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt (FactsOnFile, 1999; second revised edition, 2002), and (with Rick Archbold) Conversations with Mummies (HarperCollins/Madison Press, 2000).

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First published 2002

Copyright Rosalie David, 2002

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ISBN: 978-0-14-194138-7

CHAPTER 1
The Creation of Egyptian Civilization

CHAPTER 2
The Emergence of Religion Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods, c.50002686 BCE

CHAPTER 3
The Rise of the Sun-Cult The Old Kingdom, c.2686c.2181 BCE

CHAPTER 4
Osiris, the Peoples God The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, c.21811786 BCE

CHAPTER 5
Religion and Empire Transition from the Second Intermediate Period to the Early New Kingdom, 1786c.1400 BCE

CHAPTER 6
The Amarna Heresy The New Kingdom, c.1400c.1320 BCE

CHAPTER 7
The Return to Orthodoxy Later New Kingdom, c.13201085 BCE

CHAPTER 8
Kings and Priests: The Final Conflict The Third Intermediate and Late Periods, 1085332 BCE

CHAPTER 9
East meets West: Conflict and Co-operation in Graeco-Roman Egypt 332 BCE 4th century ACE

APPENDIX A
A Selected Passages from Egyptian Religious Texts

APPENDIX B
A Selective List of Major Religious Sites in Egypt and Nubia

The figures are after: J. G. Wilkinson, A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, 2 vols (London, 1878); A. Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt (transl. by H. M. Tirard) (New York, 1971); and W. B. Emery, Archaic Egypt (Harmondsworth, 1963).

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Thoth, god of writing, and Seshat, goddess of writing, who inscribe his name on the Persea tree. Each leaf represented a year of the kings life that the gods had allotted him.

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Illustrations in first plate section.

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), and other items were used by a local practitioner of magic.

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Illustrations in second plate section.

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