On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts

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Ancient Egyptian funerary texts have traditionally been read as providing detailed, literal descriptions of afterlife beliefs, but various aspects of this view have begun to be questioned in recent research. The present article reviews such contributions in contrast to the classical view of funerary...

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Autor principal: Nyord, Rune
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Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2022
Materias:
Religión del antiguo Egipto
Culto funerario
Vida de ultratumba
Textos funerarios
Ritual
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Mortuary Cult
Afterlife
Funerary Texts
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spelling I15-R225-article-482022-06-18T01:01:20Z On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts Acerca de la interpretación de los textos funerarios del antiguo Egipto Nyord, Rune Religión del antiguo Egipto Culto funerario Vida de ultratumba Textos funerarios Ritual Ancient Egyptian Religion Mortuary Cult Afterlife Funerary Texts Ritual Ancient Egyptian funerary texts have traditionally been read as providing detailed, literal descriptions of afterlife beliefs, but various aspects of this view have begun to be questioned in recent research. The present article reviews such contributions in contrast to the classical view of funerary texts as established by Kurt Sethe (1931), arguing that it is possible in several respects to extend their stances and conclusions. The resulting view is one in which the very notion of “funerary texts” as a text genre sui generis is questioned, along with the defining feature that such texts contain literal descriptions of a transcendent, personal afterlife. Instead, it is suggested with reference to both Egyptological and interdisciplinary ideas that funerary texts can fruitfully be viewed as sharing their structure and function with other ancient Egyptian ritual texts. In questioning the intuitive reading of the texts as descriptions of the afterlife, such an approach opens up new interpretive possibilities of relevance both within Egyptology and in cross-cultural comparison. Tradicionalmente se ha interpretado que los textos funerarios del antiguo Egipto proporcionaban descripciones literales y detalladas sobre las creencias en el más allá, aunque las investigaciones recientes han sometido a crítica diversos aspectos de este punto de vista. Este artículo pretende presentar estas investigaciones y contrastarlas con la interpretación clásica de los textos funerarios establecida por Kurt Sethe (1931), con el argumento de que en algunos aspectos es posible ir más allá de sus afirmaciones. Se puede así concluir que la misma noción de “textos funerarios” entendida como género textual sui generis es cuestionable, así como su supuesta característica fundamental, a saber que tales textos contienen descripciones literales de una vida trascendente y personal en el más allá. Por el contrario, el autor sostiene con el apoyo de ideas tomadas de la Egiptología y de la investigación interdisciplinar que los textos funerarios comparten estructura y función con otros textos rituales egipcios antiguos. Por ello, al cuestionar la lectura intuitiva de los textos como descripciones de la vida de ultratumba quedan abiertas nuevas posibilidades de interpretación relevantes tanto para la Egiptología como para los estudios comparativos interculturales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2022-02-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/48 10.35305/cl.vi19.48 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; No. 19 (2020): New Trends in Egyptology; 1-23 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; Núm. 19 (2020): Nuevas tendencias en Egiptología; 1-23 2314-0542 eng https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/48/36 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
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topic Religión del antiguo Egipto
Culto funerario
Vida de ultratumba
Textos funerarios
Ritual
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Mortuary Cult
Afterlife
Funerary Texts
Ritual
spellingShingle Religión del antiguo Egipto
Culto funerario
Vida de ultratumba
Textos funerarios
Ritual
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Mortuary Cult
Afterlife
Funerary Texts
Ritual
Nyord, Rune
On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
topic_facet Religión del antiguo Egipto
Culto funerario
Vida de ultratumba
Textos funerarios
Ritual
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Mortuary Cult
Afterlife
Funerary Texts
Ritual
author Nyord, Rune
author_facet Nyord, Rune
author_sort Nyord, Rune
title On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
title_short On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
title_full On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
title_fullStr On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
title_full_unstemmed On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts
title_sort on interpreting ancient egyptian funerary texts
description Ancient Egyptian funerary texts have traditionally been read as providing detailed, literal descriptions of afterlife beliefs, but various aspects of this view have begun to be questioned in recent research. The present article reviews such contributions in contrast to the classical view of funerary texts as established by Kurt Sethe (1931), arguing that it is possible in several respects to extend their stances and conclusions. The resulting view is one in which the very notion of “funerary texts” as a text genre sui generis is questioned, along with the defining feature that such texts contain literal descriptions of a transcendent, personal afterlife. Instead, it is suggested with reference to both Egyptological and interdisciplinary ideas that funerary texts can fruitfully be viewed as sharing their structure and function with other ancient Egyptian ritual texts. In questioning the intuitive reading of the texts as descriptions of the afterlife, such an approach opens up new interpretive possibilities of relevance both within Egyptology and in cross-cultural comparison.
publisher Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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url https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/48
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