TY - BOOK ID - 3446642 TI - The question of evil in ancient Egypt AU - Kemboly, Mpay AU - Golden House Publications PY - 2010 VL - 12 SN - 9781906137151 1906137153 PB - London Golden House Publications DB - UniCat KW - Good and evil KW - Religious aspects. KW - Egypt KW - Religion. KW - Religion égyptienne KW - Bien et mal KW - Religious aspects KW - Religion KW - Religion égyptienne. KW - Bien et mal. KW - Good and evil - Religious aspects KW - Egypt - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3446642 AB - This volume examines how the Ancient Egyptians understood the origins of evil in the world - was evil present in creation from the very beginning, or did it come about at some point after the first stage of the creation progress, and thus was the world created perfect or imperfect. Kemboly first surveys debates among Egyptologists, then re-examines Egyptian creation accounts and hymns to the creator from the Old Kingdom Pyramid texts to Graeco-Roman era inscriptions. In so doing, he also analyses how the Egyptians conceptualised evil, and finds it personified in Apopis. By discussing texts from a long period, Kemboly also attempts to trace any changes in Egpytian attitudes to these issues over time. ER -