Research Catalog

Title

The dawn of conscience.

Author

Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935.

Publication

New York, Scribner [1968, ©1933]

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Details

Description

xxvi, 431 pages illustrations; 20 cm.

Series Statement

The Scribner library

Uniform Title

Scribner library (Series)

Subject

• To 332 B.C
• Ethics, Egyptian
• Jewish ethics
• Morale juive
• Civilization
• Religion
• Egypt > Religion > History
• Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C
• Égypte > Religion > Histoire
• Égypte > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 332 av. J.-C
• Egypt

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

The background and the new past -- The nature gods and human society: the sun-god -- The sun-god and the dawn of moral ideas -- The solar faith and the struggle with death -- The pyramid texts and the Pharaoh's ascent to the sky -- The solar faith and the celestial hereafter -- The nature gods and human society: Osiris -- Sunshine and verdure: the commingling of Re and Osiris and the triumph of Osiris -- Conduct, responsibility, and the emergence of a moral order -- The collapse of materialism and the earliest disillusionment -- The earliest social prophets and the dawn of Messianism -- The earliest crusade for social justice and the democratisation of moral responsibility -- Popular appropriation of the old royal hereafter and the growth of magic -- The judgment hereafter and magic -- Universal dominion and earliest monotheism -- The fall of Ikhnaton ; The age of personal piety ; Sacerdotalism and the end -- The sources of our moral heritage.

ISBN

• 0684147416
• 9780684147413

LCCN

68007176

OCLC

• ocm02581656
• 2581656
• SCSB-120590

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library