Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife by Nyord, Rune
Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife by Nyord, Rune

Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity. Many of us are familiar...
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Author: Rune Nyord
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Language: English
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Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife by Nyord, Rune

Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

$126.20
Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife by Nyord, Rune

Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

$126.20
Author: Rune Nyord
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.


Author: Rune Nyord
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/05/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780226838250
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