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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.31
EAN: 9780801433993
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0801433991
Label: Cornell University Press
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 335
Publication Date: 1997-12
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Studio: Cornell University Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Five distinguished scholars here summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. The first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, it offers a unique perspective on ritual and its cultural significance. The authors perceive temples as loci for the creative interplay of sacred space and sacred time. They regard as unacceptable the traditional division of the temples into the categories of "mortuary" and "divine," believing that their functions and symbolic representations were, at once, too varied and too intertwined.

Contents: Temples, Priests, and Rituals: An Overview BYRON E. SHAFER, Fordham University

Royal Cult Complexes of the Old and Middle Kingdoms DIETER ARNOLD, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

New Kingdom "Mortuary Temples" and "Mansions of Millions of Years" GERHARD HAENY, formerly of the Swiss Institute in Cairo, Egypt

The New Kingdom "Divine" Temple: The Example of Luxor LANNY BELL, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design

Temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: Ancient Traditions in New Contexts RAGNHILD BJERRE FINNESTAD, University of Bergen, Norway




Rating: - The Real Meaning of Temple
I read this book from two perspectives: 1) being an architect & 2) being a serious Egyptophile studying & teaching about Egypt for years. It is a highly scholarly work containing academic information of Egypt that may seem out of context to the casual reader, for example: knowing the transliteration script of hieroglyphs and having previous knowledge of Egyptian deities. As cumbersome as this may be to some, it is an engaging series of essays.

This work describes the human elements of ... Read More

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Rating: - Insightful collection of essays
This is a collection of five essays by scholars which cover the types of Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with them from the Old Kindgom to the Roman period. The level to which the essays are engaging for the average reader varies for individual contributions, though they all contain some interesting ideas. Some of the writers spend a lot of time in detailed descriptions of the layout of temples, which some readers may not find so interesting, but two of the essays in particular contain ... Read More

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Rating: - thought-provoking and fascinating
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 ... Read More

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Rating: - For the avid Egyptophile
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 ... Read More

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