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Cyril of Jerusalem

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Like the medieval monks who understood their artistic decoration of the gospels as a form of prayer and praise

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt Andaktsböcker för barn utan vilken välfärden knappast varit'Human beings,' the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, 'are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge.' In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives