Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Abbreviations and Conventions
Outline of Egyptian Chronology
Map
0: Introduction
1: Prelude to Osiris I: Conceptions of the Afterlife in Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt
2: Prelude to Osiris II: Conceptions of the Afterlife in the Early Dynastic Period and the First Half of the Old Kingdom
3: Unreading the Pyramid Texts. So Who is Osiris?
4: Democratizing the Afterlife? Aspects of the Osirian Afterlife during the Transition from the Late Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom
5: Re Resting in Osiris, Osiris Resting in Re: Osiris, Sun God, and the Deceased in the New Kingdom
6: New Rulers, New Beliefs? Osiris and the Dead during the Transition from the Late Period to the Ptolemaic Period
7: Where is the King of the Two Lands? The End of Belief in the Osirian Afterlife
8: Summary of Results: Why Osiris?
Endmatter
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Mark Smith is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology at University College, Oxford. Originally from the USA, he earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 1979.