title: Dying in Egypt: A Remarkable Tale of Death and its Complexities
author: Harve E. Rawson
description: ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harve E. Rawson was raised in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri. He attended Antioch College and then Ohio State University where he received his Ph.D. in psychology. His first post-doctoral job was working for North American Aviation as a psychologist on "Project Apollo." After that, he began a long career as a professor at Hanover College, a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. During his 32-year tenure at Hanover, Dr. Rawson taught thousands of students, completed post-doctoral work in both experimental and clinical psychology, founded and directed (for 25 years) a short-term residential treatment center for behaviorally-disoriented children, was twice president of the Indiana Psychological Association, was awarded the Indiana Psychology Association's Distinguished Academic Psychologist Award and later their Community Service Award for his work with children, was awarded Hanover College's first teaching award (receiving it a second time in 1980) and, in 1988, was named a Fulbright Scholar with assignment in Bahrain. In 1994, the same year as his early retirement from Hanover, Dr. Rawson was again named a Fulbright Scholar, but instead became Dean of Faculty and, later, Dean of the College of Franklin College (another small liberal arts college). In 1998, he was appointed visiting professor of psychology at Mississippi State University, a brief interlude prior to further world travels which now includes over 170 countries. Dr. Rawson has over the past decade completed two radio broadcast series, 3 CDs, and seven published books ranging from a collection of parables drawn from his early childhood, three books of travel tales, a book on his college teaching experiences, a book on parenting, a radio series on world travel, a science-fiction "retro-historical" novel, a family history, and a book centered on the experiences of a World War II soldier.
zlib_text: Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
  
  Death and Salvation
  in Ancient Egypt
  by JAN ASSMANN
  Translated from the German by
  DAVID LORTON
  Abridged and updated by the author
  cornell university press
  Ithaca and London
  
  Original German edition, Tod und Jenseits im alten Ägypten, copyright 
  © 2001 by C. H. Beck, Munich. All rights reserved.
  English translation copyright © 2005 by Cornell University
  The translation of this work was published with the assistance of Inter
  Nationes.
  All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or
  parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission
  in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell
  University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York
  14850.
  English translation ﬁrst published 2005 by Cornell University Press
  Printed in the United States of America
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Assmann, Jan.
  [Tod und Jenseits im Alten Ägypten. English]
  Death and salvation i