The religions of ancient Egypt and BabyloniaA. H. Sayce
The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia
A. H. Sayce
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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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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine Delivered in Aberdeen By Archibald Henry Sayce, D.D., LL.D. Professor of Assyriology, Oxford Edinburgh T. & T. Clark, 38 George Street 1903
Contents Preface. Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt. Lecture I. Introduction. Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. Lecture III. The Imperishable Part Of Man And The Other World. Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. Lecture V. Animal Worship. Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. Lecture VII. Osiris And The Osirian Faith. Lecture VIII. The Sacred Books. Lecture IX. The Popular Religion Of Egypt. Lecture X. The Place Of Egyptian Religion In The History Of Theology. Part II. The Religion Of The Babylonians. Lecture I. Introductory. Lecture II. Primitive Animism. Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia. Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar. Lecture V. Sumerian And Semitic Conceptions Of The Divine: Assur And Monotheism. Lecture VI. Cosmologies. Lecture VII. The Sacred Books. Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics. Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple. Lecture X. Astro-Theology And The Moral Element In Babylonian Religion. Index. Footnotes
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