Output details
31 - Classics
University of Oxford
Book title
Traversing Eternity
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Oxford University Press
ISBN of book
9780198154648
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This book (746 pages) studies Egyptian ideas about death and the afterlife during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. It is based on a corpus of sixty texts, each of which is translated in its entirety, with annotation to elucidate obscure points, and supplied with a detailed introduction. Smith addresses key issues such as that of continuity and change in Egyptian religious beliefs during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and attempts to answer the question of why the composition of texts for the afterlife flourished to such a remarkable extent at this time.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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