The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia: The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine (Cambridge Library Collection – Religion)

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Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts at the same time as still an adolescent. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and popular enthusiasm for these discoveries used to be running high when Sayce began his academic career at Oxford in 1869. In this 1902 work, in the beginning given as the Gifford lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Sayce uses his theological in addition to his philological knowledge and experience to imagine the concept that of the divine in ancient Egypt and Babylonia. He describes the deities of each and every civilisation, and from what is known of religious practice he attempts to deduce what each and every may have believed about the divine and about the place of man in the god-created order of the universe. He also emphasises the difficulty of the use of material remains as evidence for beliefs, and the problem of interpreting religious texts in languages which have been then still not well understood.

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