Heilige Texte und die Frage der Kanonbildung im alten Ägypten
On the one hand there can be made out three types of a canon: the canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art, the use of certain colours for hieroglyphic signs and a canon in connection with measures and weights. On the other hand it is much more difficult to determine an ancient Egyptian canon of...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft |
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| Language: | German |
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2012
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| Summary: | On the one hand there can be made out three types of a canon: the canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art, the use of certain colours for hieroglyphic signs and a canon in connection with measures and weights. On the other hand it is much more difficult to determine an ancient Egyptian canon of religious texts. The reason might be the differentiation between sacred and canonical texts intended by Jan Assmann as it will be called into question by the present study. According to him canonical texts coming from cultural texts must have a commentary whereas sacred texts do not need a commentary but precise recitation. The situation referring to Egyptian wisdom literature (canonical compositions) and funerary texts (sacred texts) is just the other way round. Another controversial problem is to identify a real commentary. A new approach will be to consider the question of Canon independently from the question of Genre but in reflection on the religious intention meant by the author(s) of the texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zfr.2010.18.2.163 |