Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)

These seven papers are taken from a symposium entitled `Religion in Context' held in Berlin in 1998, which investigated the sociological aspects of funerary behaviour and practices in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. The papers, in both German and English, outline recent research on rituals, changes in burial positioning, concepts of evil and sinfulness, interpretations of mortuary liturgy, studies of particular cemeteries and the social environment of funerary culture in society.