书名：An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Sobekmose
定价：225.0
ISBN：9780500051887
作者：Paul F. O' Rourke
版次：1
出版时间：2016-01

内容提要：

书名：An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Papyrus of Sobekmose

作者：Paul F. O'Rourke; Anne Pasternak

出版：Thames & Hudson；2016年

装帧：精装；216页

尺寸：24.5 x 18.4  cm

本书是有史以来第一次翻译古老的《埃及索贝克莫斯亡灵书》(Egyptian Book of the Dead of Sobekmose)——由一位领先的埃及学家提供完整的插图和注释，提供了对古代伟大文明的迷人见解。

布鲁克林博物馆收藏的《索贝克莫斯亡灵书》是现存重要的古埃及亡灵书实例。这种“书”实际上是由纸莎草制成的卷轴，内容由传统的葬礼文本组成，包括魔法咒语，可以帮助死者进入来世的旅程。

古埃及人相信冥界充满了危险，需要小心翼翼地渡过，从熟悉的蛇和蝎子，到不寻常的东西：要穿过火海，要经过长有兽头的魔鬼，还有称量心脏的仪式，其结果会决定死者是否会重生，永生不死。

The first-ever translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead of Sobekmose―fully illustrated and explained by a leading Egyptologist, offering fascinating insights into one of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world

The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, is one of the most important surviving examples of ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead. Such “books”―actually papyrus scrolls―were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, which were thought to assist the deceased on their journeys into the afterlife. The ancient Egyptians believed in an underworld fraught with dangers that needed to be carefully navigated, from the familiar, such as snakes and scorpions, to the extraordinary: lakes of fire to cross, animal-headed demons to pass, and the ritual Weighing of the Heart, whose outcome determined whether or not the deceased would be born again into the afterlife for eternity.

Virtually all of the existing published translations of material from the Book of the Dead corpus are compilations of various texts drawn from a number of sources, and many translations are available only in excerpt form. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed. This new translation not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts but also grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and alien, though no less fascinating, civilization.