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The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Most Ancient and Most Important Extant Religious Text of Ancient Egypt by Charles H.S. Davis 1895
Egypt and the Books of Moses by Ernst W Hengstenberg 1850
Ancient Mysteries and Modern Revelations by WJ Colville 1910
Rameses the Great - Egypt 3300 Years Ago by F de Lanoye 1875
The Evil Eye - An account of this ancient and wide spread Superstition by FT Elworthy 1895
History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 1 by George Rawlinson 1880
History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2 by George Rawlinson 1880
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson 1850
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt, a historical outline by Edward Bell 1915
Ancient Egyptian Legends by MA Murray 1920
Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence 1910
Egypt the Cradle of Ancient Masonry by Norman Frederick De Clifford 1907
The Riddle of the Sphinx by George Campion 1913
The Sacred Beetle - a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history 1902
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge
Ancient Egyptian Magic by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 1916
Legends of Ancient Egypt - stories of Egyptian gods and heroes by FH Brooksbank 1921
The Book of the Dead by EA Wallis Budge 1920
Egyptian Magic by EA Wallis Budge 1899
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer 1900
Egyptian Religion by Jens Daniel Carolus Lieblein, 1884
Divination and demonology among the Hindus, Hebrews, Arabs and Egyptians by TW Davies 1910
The Obelisk and Freemasonry by John A Weisse 1880
History of Egyptian religion by CP Tiele 1882
Hieroglyphic Vocabulary of the Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge 1911
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by P Renouf 1904
Miracle in Stone - The Great pyramid of Egypt by JA Seiss 1878
A Handbook of Egyptian Religion by Adolf Erman 1907
The Old Egyptian Faith by EH Naville 1909
Amentet, an account of the Gods, Amulets & Scarabs of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred E Knight 1915
A History of Egyptian Mummies by Thomas J Pettigrew 1834
Isis and Osiris, Or, The Origin of Christianity by John Stuart Stuart Glennie 1878
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by EA Wallis Budge 1908
Article on the Penitence of Jannes and Jambres in Journal of Theological Studies 1901
The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George A Reisner 1912
Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom by Samuel Sharpe 1863
Egyptian Hieroglyphics - being an attempt to explain their nature, origin and meaning by Samuel Sharpe 1861
The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge 1904
The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 2 by EA Wallis Budge 1904
Tutankhamen, Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism by EA Wallis Budge 1922
The Realms of the Egyptian Dead by Alfred Wiedemann 1902
The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul by Alfred Wiedemann 1895
Religion of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred Wiedemann 1897
Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John Mackinnon Robertson 1903
Popular literature in ancient Egypt by Alfred Wiedemann 1902
Adonis, Attis, Osiris - Studies in the history of oriental religion by James G Frazer 1907
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by AH Sayce 1903
Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt by Patrick Boylan 1922
The Dawn of Astronomy; a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians 1894
The Rosetta Stone by EA Wallis Budge 1913
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge 1904
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, Volume 2 by EA Wallis Budge 1904
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, Volume 3 by EA Wallis Budge 1904
The Rosetta Stone in Hieroglyphics and Greek: With Translations by Samuel Sharpe 1871
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge 1905
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume 2 by EA Wallis Budge 1905
Book of the Kings of Egypt, Volume 1 by EA Wallis Budge 1908
Book of the Kings of Egypt, Volume 2 by EA Wallis Budge 1908
The Christ Myth by Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans 1900
The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels: Critical Studies by Thomas James Thorburn 1916
Book of the Dead 1916
Games Ancient and Oriental and how to Play Them, being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, the Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares by Edward Falkener 1892
The Myth of Ra - the Supreme Sun-god of Egypt by William Ricketts Cooper 1877
An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology by James C Prichard 1838
The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt by WR Cooper 1873
Kings and Gods of Egypt by Alexandre Moret 1912
The Horus Myth in Its Relation to Christianity by William R Cooper 1877
Egyptian Mythology by Max Muller 1918
Chronological inquiry into the ancient history of Egypt by Isaac Preston Cory 1837
The Kybalion - a Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece 1908
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses 1880
The Assumption of Moses by RH Charles 1897
The Mysteries of Astrology by Charles W. Roback 1854
Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam by SH Leeder 1912
Egyptian Obelisks by Henry Gorringe 1912
A Short History of the Egyptian Obelisks by William Cooper 1877
The Mysterious Book of Mormon by Charles J. Sundberg 1917
The External Evidences of the Book of Mormon by Theodore Clarke Smith 1912 (the claim is made that the Book of Mormon was translated from "Reformed Egyptian")
Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman 1894
Our inheritance in the Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smith 1874
The Pillar of Witness: a Scriptural view of the Great Pyramid by Benjamin Wheatley Tracey 1876
Enoch the Philistine - a Traditional Romance of Philistia, Egypt and the Great Pyramid by Le Roy Hooker 1898
Egyptian Secrets (White and Black Art) by Albertus Magnus 1919
Egyptian belief and modern thought by James Bonwick - 1878
The Great Pyramid and Napoleon by Harry R. Evans 1895
Encyclopaedia of superstitions by Cora Daniels
The Great Pyramid and the Book of the Dead, article in Babylonian & Oriental record 1894
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard Proctor 1889
Human Origins by Samuel Laing
The Religion of Ancient Egypt by WM Petrie 1906
The Mummy - chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology by EA Budge 1893
Egyptian Excavations and Mummies, article in Nature Magazine 1881
Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 2 by James H Breasted 1906
Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 3 by James H Breasted 1906
Archeological Superstitions, article in The Architect 1876
Ancient Man - the Beginning of Civilization by Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1920
Did the Phoenicians discover America? by Thomas Crawford Johnston 1892
Man's Ancient Truth and its Place in Democracy by Edmund P Lowe 1918
Sumerian Myths of Beginnings, article in The American Journal of Semitic Languages 1917
Archeology and the Bible by George A Barton 1917
The Book of Genesis in the Light of Modern Knowledge by Elwood Worcestor 1902
Ancient Times - a History of the Early World by James H Breasted 1916
The Swastika - the Earliest Known Symbol and its Migration by Thomas Wilson 1896
The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad by CJ Gadd 1921
A History of Sumer and Akkad by LW King 1910*
The World's Earliest Music by Hermann Smith 1904
Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs: Tehom and Tiamat, Hades and Satan, by A Smythe Palmer 1897
Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms by Stephen Langdon 1909
The Creation-story of Genesis 1. A Sumerian theogony and cosmogony by Hugo Radau 1902
The Ancient History of the Near East by HR Hall 1913
Roman ideas of Deity in the last century before the Christian era by WW Fowler 1914
The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop
A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities by EA Wallis Budge 1922
Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament by RW Rogers 1912
Religious and Moral Ideas in Babylonia and Assyria by Samuel Mercer 1919
The Dawn Of History by JL Myres 1911
The Dawn Of History by CF Keary 1889
The Doctrine of Sin in the Babylonian Religion by Julian Morgenstern 1905
Babylonian oil magic in the Talmud and in the later Jewish literature by Samuel Daiches 1913
Assyria - its Princes, Priests, and People by AH Sayce 1885
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 1 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 2 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 3 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 4 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 5 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 6 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 7 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 8 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 9 by A.S. Rappaport 1906
The Pulse of Asia by Ellsworth Huntington 1907
The Worship of Baalim in Israel by H Oort 1865
Egypt and Babylon from Sacred and Profane Sources by George Rawlinson 1885
Outlines of the History of Religion to the Spread of the Universal Religions by CP Tiele 1888
The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Volume 1 by George Rawlinson 1862 (Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia)
The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Volume 2 by George Rawlinson 1862
The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Volume 3 by George Rawlinson 1862
The Abasement of Nebuchadnezzar, article in Bibliotheca Sacra 1905 (discusses the Lycanthropy of Nebuchadnezzar - who knew ancient Babylon had one of the first possible were-wolves)
Sumerian Epic of Paradise 1915
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Edward J Banks 1916
Asshur and the land of Nimrod by H Rassam 1897
Irish Druids and old Irish Religions by James Bonwick 1894
Our Sun God - Christianity before Christ by John Denham Parsons 1895
The Cross, Heathen and Christian : a fragmentary notice of its early pagan existence and subsequent Christian adoption (1879) Mourant Brock
Ancient Pagan And Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman 1875 (With an essay on Baal worship, on the Assyrian sacred "grove" and other allied symbols)
Symbolism of the Pre-Christian Cross in The Methodist Review 1876
The Ethnic Trinities and their relations to the Christian trinity by Levi Paine 1901
The Trinities of the Ancients - The Mythology of the first ages by Robert Mushet 1837
The Worlds Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves 1876
Bible Myths and their Parallels in other religions by Thomas William Doane 1882
Romanism a Plagiarism of Paganism, article in Theological quarterly 1911
Primitive Christianity and its non-Jewish sources by Carl Clemen 1912
The Gentile Nations - the history and religion of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans by George Smith 1854
Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang 1901
The Babylonian Conception of Heaven and Hell by Alfred Jeremias 1902
The Tell el Amarna period by Carl Niebuhr 1901 (Egypt)
The Babylonian and the Hebrew Genesis by H. Zimmern 1901
The Evolution of the Idea of God by Grant Allen 1897
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 1 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 2 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 3 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 4 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 5 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 6 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
A History of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra, Volume 7 by E.A. Wallis Budge 1902
Babylon of Egypt, a study in the History of Old Cairo by Alfred J Butler 1914
The Mystery and History of Babylon by Frank S Weston 1914
Media, Babylon and Persia, including a study of the Zend Avesta from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war by Z Ragozin 1903
The Possible Sumerian Original of the name Nimrod by J. Dyneley Prince 1920
Traditions & Beliefs of Ancient Israel by Thomas Kelly Cheyne - 1907
Babylonian Religion and Mythology by LW King 1903
Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians by AH Sayce 1887
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence 1916
Tobit and the Babylonian Apocryphal writings by Archibald Henry Sayce
The Historical Bases of Religions, Primitive, Babylonian and Jewish by Hiram C Brown 1906
The Samas Religious Texts by Clifton D Gray 1901
Mesopotamia and Assyria by James Baillie Frasier 1842
The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by TG Pinches 1908
The Babylonian and Hebrew Views of Man's Fate After Death, article in The Open Court 1901
PanBabylonianism, article in The Harvard Theological Review 1910
A Short History of Ancient Peoples by R Souttar 1903
Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow 1911
A Hebrew Deluge Story in Cuneiform, and other Epic fragments by Albert T Clay 1922
The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow 1915
A Sketch of Semitic Origins, Social and Religious by George A Barton 1902
Prehistoric Religion - a study in pre-Christian antiquity by Philo Laos Mills 1918
Hebrew and Babylonian Traditions by Morris Jastrow 1914
Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Volume 1 By Sir James George Frazer 1918
Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Volume 2 By Sir James George Frazer 1918
Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Volume 3 By Sir James George Frazer 1918
Our own Religion in Ancient Persia by Lawrence Mills 1913
The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi by Stanley Arthur Cook 1903
The Book of Exodus by SR Driver 1911
The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story by HV Hilprecht 1910
History of Sennacherib by George Smith 1878
Israel and Babylon; the influence of Babylon on the religion of Israel by Hermann Gunkel 1904
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition by LW King 1918
The Bible and Babylon - their Relationship in the history of culture by Eduard Konig 1905
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One of the great problems confronting the modern Egyptologist is the "Book of the Dead." As far back as we have any considerable literary remains, the ancient Egyptian was accustomed to equip the dead with certain writings supposed to be of great efficacy in carrying him through the dangers which should unavoidably confront him in the hereafter. The efficacy of these writings chiefly consisted in their magical potency, in which the Egyptian had implicit faith. As a result of the fact that these writings (now comprehended under the general title "Book of the Dead") were regularly deposited in the tomb with the deceased person, whom they were intended to serve, the scribes and copyists who produced the manuscripts soon grew very careless and inaccurate. They were not troubled with any fear of complaint on the part of the unfortunates who were trying to make use of the bad copies in the next world. Add to this the further fact that some of these texts are very old, and were not understood by the scribal copyists themselves, and we shall see that corruption of the texts ran riot. It became so bad, indeed, that in all probability we shall never possess a good text, or even a usable text, of the "Book of the Dead," for no collation of duplicates carries us far enough back behind the sources of corruption. Dr. Budge at the very beginning minimizes this difficulty; but in the writer's opinion it is one which will become more and more evident as the study of these texts proceeds. Dr. Budge's book, therefore, directs little attention toward the attainment of a better text. But it is nevertheless a very useful book; and, in spite of the difficulties attending any translation of the "Book of the Dead," Dr. Budge's volumes may be highly recommended to the layman. This three-volume edition is the outgrowth of the author's larger edition containing also the original text and a dictionary, which was published in 1897. The translation is preceded by an introduction, containing a useful account of the "Book of the Dead," together with the ideas and motives which gave rise to this class of literature. It would be impossible in the space at the writer's command to discuss the treatment in this introduction. In one or two instances the reviewer is unable to reconcile the author with himself. For example he says: "There is little doubt that many of the formulae found in the Heliopolitan Recension of the 'Book of the Dead,' which was in use during the IVth and Vth Dynasties, date from a very early pre-dynastic period." It is difficult to make this statement agree with the following: "Of the history of the 'Book of the Dead' during the 2nd, 3rd, and IVth Dynasties we know nothing, and no copy of the Recension of it then in use has come down to us." It is surprising to find the author, in this introduction, deriving the origin of certain customs from their occurrence in the myth. It is, of course, exactly the reverse which is true: the Egyptians do not embalm because Osiris was embalmed; but, on the contrary, Osiris was embalmed because the Egyptians were accustomed to embalm. It is the customs of a people which go into a myth; not the myth which makes the customs of the people.
ReplyDeleteThe writer is in hearty sympathy with the author's remark: "The more the 'Book of the Dead' is read and examined, the better chance there is of its difficult allusions being explained, and its dark passages made clear" (pp. vi, vii); and it is to be hoped that a frank recognition of the unusual difficulties involved in the problem may aid in its solution. ~ James H Breasted 1902