Dialogues with the dead : Egyptology in British culture and religion, 1822-1922 / David Gange.
Dialogues with the dead : Egyptology in British culture and religion, 1822-1922 / David Gange.
Dialogues with the dead : Egyptology in British culture and religion, 1822-1922 / David Gange.
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G 2014/4793
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English
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357 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : The Accession of Menes -- The Old Kingdom : Ancient Egypt at mid century -- First Intermediate Period : The Religion of Science and the Science of Religion -- The Middle Kingdom : Orthodox Egypt, 1880-1900 -- Second Intermediate Period : Petrie's Prehistory and the Oxyrhynchus papyri...
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England
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"Almost every great figure in nineteenth-century Britain, from Thomas Carlyle to William Gladstone to Charles Darwin, read histories of ancient Egypt and argued about their content. Egypt became a focal point in disputes over the nature of human origins, the patterns underlying human history, the status and purpose of the Bible, and the cultural ro...
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Dialogues with the dead : Egyptology in British culture and religion, 1822-1922 / David Gange.
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Classical presences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2014/4793
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74VKKjewNQlg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKjewNQlg
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0199653100 (hardback)
9780199653102 (hardback)
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932.0072041
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991021979489702626
