
Click on the logo to visit the shop |
Egyptian Dreams Ancient Egypt Discussion Board
|
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
dzama923 Scribe


Joined: 15 Jul 2014 Posts: 368 Location: Stamford, Connecticut
|
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:15 pm Post subject: Looking for Book of Gates |
|
|
Hey everybody, I am looking for suggestions on which publication of the Book of Gates to buy. I don't know if there are different translations, or if the translation differences make a big difference or not. I read a brief summation, it seemed like, of the 12 hours of the Book of Gates. I read it online, it feels like there is much to be desired, it numbered about 15 pages, I am trying to find something more rooted as this can hardly be taken too seriously. Thanks for your help. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Lutz Pharaoh


Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 4059 Location: Berlin, Germany
|
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The scientific issue is by Erik Hornung :
Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits - Nach den Versionen des Neuen Reiches. - V 1: Text, XII, 410 p. - V 2: Übersetzung und Kommentar, 317 p., fig., 12 pls. - Genève : Éditions de Belles-Lettres, 1979 & 1984. - [Aegyptiaca Helvetica 7 & 8].
The English version :
The Egyptian Book of Gates. - Einsiedeln : Daimon Verlag, 2014. - 475 p. - ISBN : 978-3952388051.
Better suited, accessible and affordable to the interested layman and from the same author :
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. - Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1999. - 224 p. - ISBN : 978-0801485152.
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Underworld - Books of the Amduat & Gates, Caverns, Earth & Related Texts. - London : Karnak House, 2000. - 240 p. - ISBN : 978-1872596051.
The last two are translated from German original. I know and have this German version and can only recommend. They are also used as a study book on universities around the world, as far as I know.
Greetings, Lutz. _________________ Ägyptologie Forum (German) |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
dzama923 Scribe


Joined: 15 Jul 2014 Posts: 368 Location: Stamford, Connecticut
|
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Lutz, I can't seem to find a copy of the Book of Gates by Einsiedeln. Do you know where I can buy it? |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Lutz Pharaoh


Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 4059 Location: Berlin, Germany
|
|
Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|