The Past of the Past: Egypt as Reality and Symbol Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion, Jan Assmann, Polity, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-7456-6843-7), x + 246 pp., pb £17.99 Niebuhr in Egypt: European Science in a Biblical World, Robert H. Guichard Jr., Lutterworth, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-7188-9335-4), xviii + 344 pp., pb £27.50
Ancient Egypt and its environs drew European scholarly interest before the decipherment of hieroglyphics. Some of that interest revolved around alleged Egyptian insights into esoteric religions, while other concerns have survived better in scientific approaches to the past. However, as these books i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2017
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 218-222 |
| Review of: | Niebuhr in Egypt (Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2014) (Hamilton, Mark W.)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Esotericism B Egyptology B religio duplex B Europeans in Ottoman Empire B early modern scholarship |
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| Summary: | Ancient Egypt and its environs drew European scholarly interest before the decipherment of hieroglyphics. Some of that interest revolved around alleged Egyptian insights into esoteric religions, while other concerns have survived better in scientific approaches to the past. However, as these books indicate, the boundaries between the esoteric and the scientific are much more fluid than often thought. The study of that early modern research on Egypt reveals both the continuities and discontinuities between different stages of scholarship and thus the historicity of historiography itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.12885 |