Egyptian Ideas of the Afterlife Author:E. A. Wallis Budge Immortality was the great central idea on which Egyptian religious and social life turned. In this volume, a noted Egyptologist offers a concise, scholarly exposition of Egyptian belief in Osiris, god of the resurrection; other "gods" of the Egyptians; the judgment of the dead and the resurrection; and immortality. Also, the meaning of the after... more »life for ancient Egyptians and its ramifications for Egyptian society. 8 illus.« less