Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt / / Jan Assmann.
"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Abridged and updated by the author |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
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