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Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism

Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult, which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the "mysteries" of the sun cult; 2) the tr

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  • "Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult, which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the "mysteries" of the sun cult; 2) the tr"@en
  • "The golden age of Egyptian solar hymns - the three centuries from c. 1500 to 1200 BC which have provided many hundreds of examples of them - is a unique phenomenon. No other period of Egyptian history, indeed no other culture, has produced such an abundance of poetry in praise of the sun god. There are among them an astonishing abundance of hymns that have an individual character and represent the textual expression of the spiritual-religious movement. The spiritual movement that is embedded in and expressed by them is the struggle to articulate a concept of the unity of the divine - the One God. The uniqueness or oneness of god is the central theological problem of the New Kingdom. The Amarna period is striking proof of the historical explosiveness of this problem. It is less well known that the problem was by no means solved with the failure of Amarna religion. There was a continuing attempt to articulate concepts of the unity of god and to harness this conception with the ultimately indispensable reality of polytheism in Egyptian religion during these centuries. The crisis of polytheism is primarily concerned with the conception of god, with questions of unity and plurality that are pushed - long before the rise of monotheistic religions in the proper sense - to the extremes of radical and revolutionary monotheism. The problem confronts us in the texts themselves; it is explicit, central and cannot be ignored. It is the dominant theme of the theological discourse which establishes the contours of Egyptian cosmology at the same time as determining the nature of the divine. The confusion in which Egyptian theology usually appears in the texts produces a degree of complexity that precludes comprehensive understanding of it. In this volume - a revised and expanded version of the original German text - solar religion and the sun hymns of the New Kingdom are studied in the greatest possible detail, with five different traditions distinguished and analysed. As the work demonstrates, the sun hymns of the tomb inscriptions, which reveal the theological process of solar religion in all its dimensions, provide a means of accessperhaps unique and certainly the first of its kind - to understanding a highly significant period and aspect of Egyptian religion."
  • "Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult, which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the ""mysteries"" of the sun cult; 2) t."@en

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  • "Re und Amun : d. Krise d. polytheistischen Weltbilds im Ägypten d. 18. - 20. Dynastie"
  • "Re und Amun : die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbilds im Ägypten der 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom : Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism"
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the new kingdom : Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism"
  • "Re und Amun : die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbilds im Agypten der 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism"
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism"@en
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom : Re, Amun and the crisis of Polytheism"@en
  • "Re und Amun : d. Krise d. polytheist. Weltbilds im Ägypten d. 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Re und Amun : Die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbilds im Ägypten der 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Egyptian Solar Religion"@en
  • "Re und Amun die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbilds im Ägypten der 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Re und Amun : Die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbilds im Agypten der 18.-20. Dynastie"
  • "Re und Amun"
  • "Re and Amun : the crisis of polytheism in New Kingdom Egypt"@en
  • "Re und Amun : Die Krise des polytheistischen Weltbids in Agypten der 18-20 Dynastie"
  • "Egyptian solar religion in the New Kingdom : Re, Amun and the crisis of polytheism in new kingdom Egypt"

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