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Funerary papyrus from the British Museum; Scribal statue of Amenhotep, son of Hapu, from Thebes, Dyn. 18.

Readings for Week 1: 

Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, pgs. 86 - 99 ("Multiplicty and hierarchy of names" & "Syncretism")

Assmann, The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, pgs. 73 - 80 (Ch. 3 "The Cosmos" - section 3.4, "Cosmos and Time")

Frankfort, Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, pgs. 31 - 42 & pgs. 51 - 61 (Ch. 2 "Egypt: The Nature of the Universe" - first part "Geographic Considerations" and third part "Cosmogony")

Assmann, pgs. 119 - 123 (Ch. 5 "Myth" - section 5.4 only "The Genealogy of the Cosmos and the Kingship")

Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, pgs. 12 - 29 (Ch. 1 "Understanding ancient Egyptian art")

Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt, pgs. 178 - 187 ("The Man Who Was Weary of Life")

Simpson, pgs. 45 - 54 ("The Shipwrecked Sailor")

Simpson, pgs. 75 - 79 ("The Tale of the Doomed Prince")

Allen, "Funerary Texts and Their Meaning," pgs. 38 - 49 in D'Auria, et al., Mummies and Magic

Quirke, Ancient Egyptian Religion, pgs. 140 - 171 (Ch. 5 "Surviving Death: Transfiguration")

Readings for Week 2:

Dodson & Ikram, The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, pgs. 12 - 22 & pgs. 23 - 30 (Ch. 1 "Egyptian Mortuary Beliefs and the Nature of the Tomb" and Ch. 2 "The Tomb and Society")

Wilkinson, The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, pgs. 52 - 79 (Ch. 3 "Worlds Within Worlds")

Assmann, pgs. 189 - 198 (Ch. 9 "The New Gods" - parts 9.1.1. and 9.1.2.)

Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, pgs. 9 - 17 (Ch. 1 "Egyptian Magic")

Ritner, "Household Religion in Ancient Egypt," pgs. 171 - 196 in Bodel, et al., Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

Assmann, pgs. 198 - 221 (9.2 "The God of Amarna Religion")

Freed, "Art in the Service of Religion and the State," pgs. 110 - 129 in Freed, et al., Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen

Posted at Jul 30/2009 10:48AM:
Emily: The Hornung reading for Friday ("Preface" from The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife) has been removed and is no longer an assigned reading.