Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree: The Contexts: v. I (Egypt, Trunk of the Tree, Vol. I (HC)) - Hardcover

Najovits, Simson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875862225 ISBN 13: 9780875862224

Publisher: Algora Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Writing in an easy to read narrative literary style while respecting the norms of Egyptological scholarship, the author examines the contradictory opinions of major Egyptologists (and the major loonies), and brings us closer to Egypt's core meaning and influence. Along the way, he illuminates the enchanting, imaginative beauty of the Egyptian saga. Ancient Egypt built a society on a remarkable mixture of the new, the useful and the beautiful, while retaining primitive magic, obscurantism, and the infantile but extraordinarily poetic. Egypt was also one of the most optimistic nations ever founded, inventing optimistic answers to many of man's fundamental questions. Volume I surveys the religious underpinnings of the society, including the founding of the first nation - and the first nation to proclaim its sacred nature. Divine kingship, the holy city and capital city were invented here.

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Review

In the first of two volumes, Najovits provides a remarkably evenhanded introductory survey of Egypt...as a cradle of civilization. -- Publishers Weekly, July 21, 2003

Not since Siegfried Morenz's Egyptian Religion has such a systematic effort been attempted...thorough anayses...opposes all loonies of Egyptomania... -- Choice, February 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0875862225
• ISBN 13: 9780875862224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 316