Religious Literature of Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt
Although Egypt was ruled by foreigners during most of the Late and Greco-Roman periods, native religious traditions remained strong and the period witnessed the production of a wide variety of religious texts written in the Egyptian language. This article presents many of the major religious texts o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Religion compass
Year: 2007, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-106 |
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| Summary: | Although Egypt was ruled by foreigners during most of the Late and Greco-Roman periods, native religious traditions remained strong and the period witnessed the production of a wide variety of religious texts written in the Egyptian language. This article presents many of the major religious texts of Egypt's Late and Greco-Roman periods and comments on the trends of continuity and change that they suggest. It is divided into three sections. The first discusses texts written on temple walls or on papyri stored in temple scriptoria which speak to the ritual and theological activities of the priesthood. The second examines different types of oracle requests and divinatory texts which represent the practical religion of the living. The third focuses on mortuary texts recited over the deceased and funerary texts placed in the grave.1 |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2006.00012.x |