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MEEKS, D., and Chr.FAVARD-MEEKS, - Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods. Translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian.
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| Schrijver: | MEEKS, D., and Chr.FAVARD-MEEKS, |
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| Titel: | Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods. Translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian. |
| ISBN: | 9780719556265 |
| Uitgever: | John Murray, London, 1997. VII,249p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings. Original light blue cloth with pictorial dust wrps. spine gilt titled. |
| Bijzonderheid: | The ‘Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods’ is an introduction to ancient Egyptian religion and at the same time a most interesting historiographic experiment. (…) It presents a general, synchronous interpretation of some two thousand years of rel... |
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| Meer info | its focus is always divine functions and ways of interacting, never the personality of individual gods. (…) The author consider their investigation an approach to ‘the essential structure of Egyptian myth not as an imaginary construct designed to justify the reality of ritual acts, but rather as a reality whose existence could not be maintained without rites. It is to confront the gods without intermediaries, as the extant documents suggest one should.’ (…) A lot of predictable criticism might be advanced against this ‘bracketing’ of divine life, but it should be borne in mind that the book is no naive compilation of religious ideas. It is a very conscious experiment exploring the possibilities of ancient Egyptian religion. (…) The enterprise seems least convincing when its questionnaire comes closest to animal ethology. (…) Much more convincing and instructive are the accounts of temple ritual. (…). A n experiment, the book is instructive in a general methodological sense. (…) In ‘The Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods’. The ethological approach is conscious and unmixed and, not least, paired with indisputable Egyptological scholarship, This makes the book a very clear demonstration of both the potential and the shortcomings of the ethology of gods.’ (J. PODEMANN SØRENSEN in History of Religions, 1999, p.391-392). |
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