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List of Maps, Figures and Plates
Maps 1 and 2
Preface Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I A Survey of the Historical Development of Religion
in Ancient Egypt
Introduction
1 The Predynastic and Early Dynastic communities
The Predynastic societies
The Dynastic Race
The political and social organisation of the Naqada II communities
The Unification of Egypt
The political organisation of the Early Dynastic period
Religious beliefs and practices during the Predynastic and
Early Dynastic Periods
The contribution of the Archaic Period
2 The Old Kingdom
Organisation of the society
Religious organisation
Cosmogonies
The cult of Re‘
The Wisdom Literature
The funerary beliefs and customs of the Old Kingdom
The Pyramid Texts
The tombs of the nobility
Tomb art – the underlying principles
The decline of the Old Kingdom
3 The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom
Collapse of the society
Restoration of political order
The Middle Kingdom
Religious developments in Dynasties 11 and 12
Royal funerary monuments of Dynasties 11 and 12
The royal jewellery of the Middle Kingdom
A pyramid workmen’s village
Osiris and the democratisation of funerary beliefs
The tombs of the nobles during the First Intermediate Period
and the Middle Kingdom
Tomb equipment and furniture
4 The New Kingdom
The period of Hyksos rule
The role of Amen-Re‘ (Amun)
The Egyptian temple
The priesthood
The role of religion in education
The role of religion in the law
The role of religion in medicine
Household gods and personal piety
The relationship between Egyptian and foreign cults and deities
Funerary beliefs and practices in the New Kingdom
The court of Amenophis III
History of the Aten
Aspects of Atenism
The counter-revolution
5 Some contributions made by Egyptian religion to
other religions
Part II Primary Sources for the Study of Egyptian
Religion
Appendix A1 Primary sources: religious texts and archaeological
bibliography
Appendix A2 Selected passages from Egyptian religious literature
Appendix B A selective list of major religious sites in Egypt
Part III Secondary Sources for the Study of Egyptian
Religion
Appendix C Secondary sources and additional bibliography dealing
with specific aspects and
controversies
Appendix D A chronological table of Egyptian history
Index
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