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Title: Temples of Ancient Egypt by Dieter Arnold, Lanny Bell, Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, Gerhard Haeny, Byron E. Shafer ISBN: 0-8014-3399-1 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: thought-provoking and fascinating
Comment: This thought-provoking book is comprised of comprehensive essays written by various established scholars. Amongst the topics covered are religion, creation, kingship and the netherworld. The book consists of fascinating surveys of the Ancient Egyptian temples. Byron Shafer gives an overview of temples and rituals; Dieter Arnold explains the evolution of the pyramids through the Middle Kingdom; Gerhard Haeny explained the temples of the Ramessid Period; Lanny Bell describes the Luxor Temple (the monument most visited by tourists); and Ragnbild Finnestad writes on Ptolemaic and Roman temples. A recommended book for the interested.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the avid Egyptophile
Comment: Shafer, et al have compiled a very well written and extremely in-depth examination of the meaning and importance of temples in ancient Egypt. All the sections were fascinating but I especially found Lanny Bell's treatment of Luxor temple (derived from his many years of work there), Gerhard Haeny's section on Mansions of Millions of Years, and Finnestad's chapter on Ptolemaic temples (really a discussion of the context of this period of temples) to be especially engaging. All of these added greatly to my understanding of the topics they addressed. I would recommend this to any serious Egyptophile with the caveat that it is all written largely in scholarly terms. They don't entirely assume prior knowledge but without some foundation in Egyptological literature, readers might find this interesting but a bit thick.
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture by Dieter Arnold ISBN: 0691114889 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 20 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by Byron E. Shafer, John R. Baines, David Silverman ISBN: 0801497868 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson ISBN: 0500051208 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 26 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung, John Baines ISBN: 0801483840 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Valley of the Kings: The Tombs and the Funerary of Thebes West by Kent Weeks ISBN: 1586632957 Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: 31 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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