Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife - Rune Nyord - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226838236 - March 5, 2025
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Rune Nyord
Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

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How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity.   Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians’ obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune Nyord shows, even today, our understanding of the Egyptian afterlife has been formulated to a striking extent in Christian terms.

Nyord argues that this is no accident, but rather the result of a long history of Europeans systematically retelling the religion of ancient Egypt to fit the framework of Christianity. The idea of ancient Egyptians believing in postmortem judgment with rewards and punishments in the afterlife was developed during the early modern period through biased interpretations that were construed without any detailed knowledge of ancient Egyptian religion, hieroglyphs, and sources.   As a growing number of Egyptian images and texts became available through the nineteenth century, these materials tended to be incorporated into existing narratives rather than being used to question them.

Against this historical background, Nyord argues that we need to return to the indigenous sources and shake off the Christian expectations that continue to shape scholarly and popular thinking about the ancient Egyptian afterlife.  

272 pages, 10 halftones

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Released March 5, 2025
ISBN13 9780226838236
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 160 × 235 × 26 mm   ·   618 g

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