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Bezig met laden... Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature (Oriental Institute Essays) (1948)door Henri Frankfort
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I confess that I only read the half of this book which deals with Mesopotamian kingship, not the parts about Egypt, but I was pleasantly impressed with the insights. ( ) I was a bit disappointed by the author's emphasis on ritual practices in this book. He does make some broader generalizations and he reaches a few comparative conclusions about egyptian and mesopotamian religion and kingship, but mostly he just recounts theological and ritual minutiae without putting them into a broader context. This book does not shed any light on how the institution of kingship shaped these ancient societies. So I can only recommend this book to people who are really enthusiastic about egyptian or mesopotamian religion. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)299.31Religions Other Religions By Region/Civilization Of North African Origin Ancient EgyptianLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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