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THIS brief account of the religion of ancient Egypt in the eighteenth and early nineteenth dynasties is intended both for the general reader and for those who are entering on the study of Egyptology. During the last twenty years, our knowledge of Egyptian religion has been much amplified by the labours of the archaeologist, and a textbook such as this, which incorporates the new material, was greatly needed. Mr. Shorter has based the whole of his descriptive matter on the monuments, so that the reader unversed in the technique of Egyptian studies may learn how our knowledge is acquired. Akhenaton and Aton worship are not unduly emphasised, as so often happens in the discussion of eighteenth dynasty religious beliefs, though their significance is appreciated to the full. The account of Queen Hatshepsut is, in its way, the best thing in the book.
An Introduction to Egyptian Religion: an Account of Religion in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty.
A. W.
Shorter
. Pp. xv + 139 + 8 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 8s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to Egyptian Religion: an Account of Religion in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Nature 130, 79 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130079b0
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