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RECOMMENDED READING ON THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
EGYPTIAN RELIGION
Annotated by Oriental Institute Museum Associate Curator Emily Teeter
If you purchase any of these or other books by following this link to Amazon or Barnes and Noble a portion of your costs will go to support the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute.
Abbreviations: pb: available in a paper bound edition
Note: The books by E.A. Wallis Budge, although widely available are NOT recommended. They use an antiquated system of transliteration and the translations are often very poor.
- Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaton: King of Egypt. Thames and Hudson, 1988.
- Best and even-handed discussion of the Amarna Period. Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Hornung, Erik. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.
- The best one volume work on religion. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Hornung, Erik. The Valley of the Kings. Timken Publisher, 1990.
- Wonderful book with fantastic photographs of royal tombs. Expert text by the foremost scholar of religious texts from the royal tombs. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Morenz, S. Egyptian Religion. Cornell, 1973. pb.
- Excellent discussion of aspects of Egyptian religion and thought with many extracts from ancient texts. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Quirke, Stephen. Ancient Egyptian Religion. The British Museum, 1992.
- Very good introduction to many aspects of religion, illustrated with artifacts. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Shafer, Byron (editor). Religion in Ancient Egypt:Gods, Myth and Personal Practice. Cornell Univ. Press, 1991. Contributions by John Baines, Leonard Lesko and David Silverman.
- Somewhat uneven, but interesting text. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Shafer, Byron (editor) The Temples of Ancient Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- Valuable collection of essays on priests and their duties, rituals and the architectural development of temples. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
- Silverman, David (editor), Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Sections deal with many aspects of religion. Well illustrated. [Buy it on line and support the Research Archives]
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Revised: April 19, 2001
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