The Search for God in Ancient Egypt: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, Paperback - Jan Assmann

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists...

The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

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Proceedings of a conference held in Athens in 2017, this volume presents 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2 abstracts) on ancient Egyptian religi...

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A fascinating exploration of the lives of normal people in ancient Egypt. Full of their own strange and amusing stories; documents their anxieties,...

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