The Bible and the Religions of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.

This study examines how the cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, with their highly developed senses of religion and spirituality, provide a useful and even…

This study examines how the cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, with their highly developed senses of religion and spirituality, provide a useful and even crucial context for a fuller study and understanding of the Bible. The beliefs and practices of these ancient civilizations embodied in such important literary works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Sumerian/Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s perennially sublime Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the great Hellenic tragedies, are major cultural legacies that have enriched civilization and indubitably deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books, their cultural location, and their enduring moral authority.

Robert Ignatius Letellier was educated in Grahamstown, Cambridge, Salzburg, Rome and Jerusalem. He is a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Salzburg Centre for Research in the Early English Novel, the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, and the Institute for Continuing Education at Madingley Hall, Cambridge. His publications number over 100 items, including books and articles on the early English novel, the Gothic novel, Sir Walter Scott, the Bible, and European culture. He has specialized in Romantic opera, especially the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Fromental Halévy, the opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and Adolphe Adam, the Operetta, Romantic ballet, and Ludwig Minkus.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-0216-3
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-0216-1
Date of Publication: 2023-05-18

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ISBN: 1-0364-0138-3
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0138-2
Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

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ISBN: 1-5275-0217-1
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-0217-8
Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

Category: Social Sciences, History, History

Pages: 363

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Pages: 363

"This an outstanding, comprehensive and exhaustive work of reference particularly to those wanting to understand the cultural world into which the Old Testament emerged, and co-existed with. Letellier lucidly discusses the religion of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Greece. The literature of Ancient Egypt, along with Sumerian Babylonian literature is outlined, thus the reader learns of the many tales existing before even the Old Testament. Writers from the Greek era such as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Socrates are also included. For those studying the Book of Genesis, Letellier’s analysis of the writings of Gilgamesh from the Sumerian Babylonian corpus will be found to be very useful.
- As usual, Letellier provides comprehensive indexing, exceptional coloured illustrations, scholarship and an appendix with excerpts from the writings of Plutarch and Homer." Robert F Gibson

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