Recommended Reading List
On Magic & Divination
- Andrews, Carol, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, University of Texas Press. 1994
- Barns, John. The Nevill Papyrus: A Late Ramesside Letter to an Oracle in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology volume 35 (1949).
- Borghouts, J. F. Witchcraft, Magic and Divination in Ancient Egypt in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 3, 1775-1786. New
York: Scribner, 1995 onward.
- Borghouts, J. F. Magical Practices among the Villagers in Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina, ed. Leonard H. Lesko, 119-130,
182-185. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
- Kadry, Ahmed. The Oracle of Amon-Re and the Decadence of Egypt's Ancient
Civilization in Near Eastern Studies Dedicated to His Imperial Highness Prince
Takahito Mikasa on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (1991).
- Loewe, Michael and Blacker, Carmen (editors). Oracles and Divination, Shambala Publications, 1981.
Ancient Religious Texts
- Allen, T.G., trans. The Book of the Dead or Going Forth By Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians
concerning the hereafter as expressed in their own terms, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization #37, 1974
- Faulkner, R.O. (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts: Spells 1- 354, Aris & Phillips, 2000
- Faulkner, R.O., The Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Book of Going Forth By Day Chronicle Books, 1994
- Foster, J. L. Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Egyptian Lyric Poetry, SBL Writings from the Ancient World Series. Volume 8. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1995.
- Karenga, Maulana. Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt, University Sankore Press, 1989.
- Lichtheim, Miriam, transl. Ancient Egyptian Literature. (3 volumes). University of California Press, 1976.
- Piankoff, A. Mythological Papyri. Bollingen Series, Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations,
1957. Out of print.
- Piankoff. The Litany of Ra. Bollingen Series, Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations, 1957. Out
- Simpson, William Kelly, ed. The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instruction and Poetry, Yale University Press, 1972
of print.
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