RE: Egyptian funerary texts
December 16, 2011 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 4:46 pm by Shell B.)
(December 16, 2011 at 4:34 pm)dtango Wrote: Actually you need them only if you want to prove that they didn’t (the texts are evidence that they were preoccupied with life after judgment and that they had no idea about life after death which was invented later by the priesthood).
How so? A preoccupation with one does not exclude awareness of another. Their very manner of burial is evidence that they believed in life after death. If you can name one culture that did not believe in life after death, but had such burial customs, I will change my tune.
(December 16, 2011 at 4:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm not sure what that has to do with the language, Chuck. The modern English alphabet was finalized in the mid 16th century but no one would say that the language has not changed since then.
I believe, and I could be wrong, that he is alluding to the differences between the two. Hieroglyphs are not strictly alphabetic.
