Opis: The Open Court, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint) - Carus Paul

Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 24

Since primordial times philosophers and religious teachers of mankind have dwelt on the transiency of life, and we may truly say that if death did not exist man would live unthinkingly, without thought of the morrow and without pondering on the deeper problems of existence. There would be no philosophy, no religion and none of the ideals of sacrifice and victory of life triumphant over the power of death. Transiency and with it all that results therefrom, pain and other troubles, grief for the departed and the prospect of our own death, have been the teachers in the stern school of life.

Among the oldest documents which record a contemplation of the problem of death are two Egyptian poems, "The Hymn of King In-jetef" and "The Song of the Harper." Both are like two renderings of the same original. The text of the former is preserved in two versions. A complete copy of one of them, which, however, is very carelessly written, was found on a papyrus now preserved in the British Museum under the title "Harris 500." The other copy was discovered in a tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty (which ruled about 1600-1350 B. C.), where it was inscribed on the wall. It is written in a clear hand but exists only in fragments, which have been transported to the museum at Leyden.

Maspero was the first translator of the papyrus version in Etudes gyptologiques, I, 164. Both texts were edited and commented upon and translated into German by W. Max Mller. Later translations are by Adolf Erman and James Henry Breasted.

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Szczegóły: The Open Court, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint) - Carus Paul

Nazwa: The Open Court, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Carus Paul
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330543047
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 94
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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