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A Problem of the Osirian Judgment of the Dead

A Problem of the Osirian Judgment of the Dead A PROBLEM OF THE OSIRIAN JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD *) BY DR. S. G. F. BRANDON, Professor of Comparative Religion in the University of Manchester The ancient Egyptian belief that the dead would be judged in the next world on the quality of their life in this is one of the most notable achievements in the religious history of mankind, both for its antiquity and the dramatic form in which it finally found expression. So far as its antiquity is concerned, it appears as an already established belief in the Pyraynid Texts, which date from about 25oo B.C. and which constitute, with the so-called Shabaka Stone l), not only the earliest written documents of Egyptian culture but also the first literary records which we have of human thought. The belief reaches its most elaborate form of expression in the more sumptuous copies of the so-called Book of tlae Dead in the i8th and igth Dynasties, i.e. from about 1580-i2oo B.C., it being then portrayed in the vignettes with which these versions are adorned. One of the finest of these illustrated versions is the Papyrus of Ani, which is now preserved in the British Museum 2), and its representation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

A Problem of the Osirian Judgment of the Dead

Brandon, S.G.F.
Numen , Volume 5 (1): 110 – Jan 1, 1958
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© 1958 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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A PROBLEM OF THE OSIRIAN JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD *) BY DR. S. G. F. BRANDON, Professor of Comparative Religion in the University of Manchester The ancient Egyptian belief that the dead would be judged in the next world on the quality of their life in this is one of the most notable achievements in the religious history of mankind, both for its antiquity and the dramatic form in which it finally found expression. So far as its antiquity is concerned, it appears as an already established belief in the Pyraynid Texts, which date from about 25oo B.C. and which constitute, with the so-called Shabaka Stone l), not only the earliest written documents of Egyptian culture but also the first literary records which we have of human thought. The belief reaches its most elaborate form of expression in the more sumptuous copies of the so-called Book of tlae Dead in the i8th and igth Dynasties, i.e. from about 1580-i2oo B.C., it being then portrayed in the vignettes with which these versions are adorned. One of the finest of these illustrated versions is the Papyrus of Ani, which is now preserved in the British Museum 2), and its representation

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Published: Jan 1, 1958

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