In a relatively brief book, the author provides detailed descriptions and summaries of the major Egyptian funerary texts, along with extensive bibliography to provide a valuable and useful guide. There has long been a need for a thorough English language survey of this material, a need that is well met by the present volume. Modern titles assigned to ancient collections of funerary texts, such as “Pyramid Texts” or “Book of the Dead,” often give little hint of their contents, which are often obscure to modern readers even when available in translation. Ancient Egyptian funerary literature is a complex subject, sometimes as daunting to the Egyptologist as to the nonspecialist.
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