Ancient Egypt religion

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Dimitri Laboury

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The first part of the course will be dedicated to the analysis of the principles that structured Ancient Egyptian religion (in synchrony as well as in diachrony) and of the means still available nowadays to investigate the religious phenomenon in Ancient Egypt. The second part of the course will deal with a subject relating to the study of the diffusion of isiac cults in the greco-roman world. This year, it will present a kind of cultural biography of the new divine husband of Isis, the god Sarapis / Serapis, from his so-called creation under Ptolemy Ist Soter until the destruction of his famous sanctuary in Alexandria by Christians in 391.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

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Recommended or required readings

Jan Assmann, The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, Ithaca, New York, 2001; Philippe Derchain, La religion égyptienne, in H. Ch. Puech (ed.), Histoire des religions I, Encyclopédie de la Pléiade 29, Paris 1970, 63-140; Françoise Dunand et Christiane Zivie-Coche, Hommes et dieux en Égypte, Paris, 2006.

Assessment methods and criteria

not available

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course is given on odd-numbered years

Contacts

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