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Nov 22, 2022 26 min

The "One God" in Ancient Egypt

from Let's Talk Religion

In this episode, we explore whether or not we can find the conception of a single, absolute god in ancient Egyptian theology. Sources/Suggested Reading: Assmann, Jan (2001). "The Seach for God in Ancient Egypt". Translated by David Lorton. Cornell University Press. Copenhaver, Brian P. (ed.) (1995). "Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction". Cambridge University Press. Hornung, Erik (1982). "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many". Translated by John Baines. Cornell University Press. Hornung, Erik (2001). "Akhenaten and the Religion of Light". Translated by David Lorton. Cornell University Press. Simpson, William Kelley (ed.) (2003). "The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry". Yale University Press. Teeter Emily (2011). "Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt". Cambridge University Press. #Egypt #Antiquity #Religion

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