” What, for the ancient Egyptians, was the nature of the world’s governing spirits’… With the evidence of ancient texts, Assmann considers Egyptian theology,… and cults and rites…. This deep, analytic book is of the greatest interest not only for specialists in matters Egyptian but also for comparative studies.” ― Antiquity
First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author. This classic work by one of the world’s most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan Assmann’s views on ancient Egyptian religion, with special emphasis on theology and piety.
