Books of Breathing
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The Books of Breathing (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang".) are several ancient Egyptian funerary texts, intended to enable deceased people to continue existing in the afterlife. The earliest known copy dates to circa 350 BC.[1] Other copies come from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt, as late as the 2nd century AD.[2] It is a simplified form of the Book of the Dead.
They were originally named "The Letter for Breathing Which Isis Made for Her Brother Osiris, The First Letter for Breathing" and "The Second Letter for Breathing" and have appeared in many varying copies, often leading scholars to confuse them with each other.[3] Their titles use the word "breathing" as a metaphorical term for all of the aspects of life that the deceased hoped to experience again in the afterlife. The texts exhort various Egyptian gods to accept the deceased into their company.[4]
Some of the papyri that the American religious leader Joseph Smith (1805–1844) used to create the Book of Abraham are parts of the Books of Breathing.[5]
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- ↑ Hornung 1999, pp. 23–25
- ↑ Smith 2009, pp. 462, 500, 521
- ↑ Smith 2009, pp. 462, 499, 514
- ↑ Smith 2009, pp. 466, 503, 517–518
- ↑ Ritner, R. K. (2013). The Joseph Smith Egyptian papyri: A complete edition ; P. JS 1-4 and the hypocephalus of Sheshonq. Salt Lake City: The Smith Pettit Foundation. Page74
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