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The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia — A. H. Sayce

The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia

A. H. Sayce

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 540 pages

This is a collection of the Gifford Lectures on the religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia, delivered by A. H. Sayce and published in 1903. It surveys Egyptian beliefs about the gods, the afterlife, and sacred texts, alongside Babylonian myths, rituals, and ideas of the divine. It offers a scholarly introduction to how these ancient cultures understood the sacred.

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Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface.
  3. Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt.
  4. Part II. The Religion Of The Babylonians.
  5. Index.
  6. Footnotes

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