The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
by Robert P. Winston
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Author: Robert P. WinstonEditor: John Romer
Introduction: John Romer
Translator: Wallace Budge
Commentary: Wallace Budge
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-25
ISBN: 0140455507
Number of pages: 992
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Reviews of The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
Book Review: 3 times larger than the Papyrus of Ani edition
Summary: 5 Stars
This edition of Budge's book of the Dead is not the same as the Dover edition (the Papyrus of Ani). It's in fact an edition Budge published a few years later (The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day), and it's a compilation of all the papyri available at the time, making this the most complete edition of the Book of the Dead available today. The translation itself has over 3 times the material in the earlier edition, and the translation is more polished than Budge's earlier work. If you have the Papyrus of Ani, I recommend you get this as well, as you're missing out on a ton of material. While the binding and presentation is not as good as the Dover, in terms of contents it is unbeatable.
Summary of The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
The most famous of all ancient Egyptian texts?with an introduction by one of the most celebrated Egyptologists of our timeAMONG THE MOST WIDELY read and studied of all ancient writings, The Egyptian Book of the Dead consists of funerary texts that ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. This astonishing array of spells, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, and words of power and prayers were all found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins, sarcophagi, and rolls of papyri.
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