Fascinating book explores the underlying concept of the changeless as the basis of Egyptian religion, and how it unifies what scholars had believed to be an unrelated jungle of weird myths, doctrines, and practices generated by local cults. ". . . one of the finest elucidations of these materials that we have anywhere." â€” American Historical Review. 32 halftones.

Ancient Egyptian Religion an Interpretation

History

Frankfort, Henri

Ancient Civilizations

Harpercollins College Div

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The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Puffin

Frankfort, Henri. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. Middlesex, Penguin, 1970. 15 x 21cm. 456 pages, with black and white photographs and text illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed with previous owner's name. [The Pelican History of Art, Series Editor: Nikolaus Pevsner]. Monumental architecture and sculpture first appeared in the Near East between 3500 and 3000 B.C. when Egypt and Mesopotamia emerged as the focal points of civilisation. They continued as such until about 500 B.C., when Greece took the lead. This book traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia. [Penguin]

Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East

Science & Math

Jacobsen, Thorkild

Wilson, John A.

Behavioral Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Drawing from Black folklore, the author recreates six stories about the wind and the water, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear and a knee-high man

Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society & Nature

Religion & Spirituality

This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.

Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature (Oriental Institute Essays)

University of Chicago Press Journals

The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, Fourth Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)

Yale University Press

The birth of civilization in the Near East (Doubleday anchor books)

DOUBLEDAY

"[T]he author gives a well-integrated and thoughtful interpretation of Egyptian thought which endeavors to uncover the roots of Egyptian religion. It is at this point that Frankfort has made his great contribution." —Journal of Religion Until the publication of this masterly study, Egyptian religion was thought by most scholars to be a nearly impenetrable jungle of weird myths, doctrines, and practices, the product of numerous unrelated local cults existing side by side. Misconceptions were exacerbated by the monotheistic bias of Western thought. Henri Frankfort, former Research Professor of Oriental Archaeology at the University of Chicago and former Director of Excavations for the Egypt Exploration Society of London, presents formidable evidence to the contrary, by disregarding local differences in cults and dogmas and focusing instead on the trends and qualities that regularly recur in five important aspects of Egyptian life. Using this method, Dr. Frankfort concludes that there is one conviction underlying all Egyptian belief, i.e., that the universe is static and that only the changeless is ultimately significant. Delving into Egyptian theology, the author shows how that view informed not only religious beliefs, but also Egyptian moral and political philosophy, government and society, and literature and art. Enhanced with 32 illustrations, this book is "one of the finest elucidations of these materials that we have anywhere" (AmericanHistorical Review). Chronological Table. Index. Preface. 32 halftones.

Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation

Dover Publications

"Henri Frankfort attempts to establish the cultural innovations marking the dim boundary between the prehistoric millennia and our own history. He asserts that all civilizations have an elusive and unique identity," and this he attempts to chronicle in this history.

The birth of civilization in the Near East

Ernest Benn Ltd.

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