Anna Mancini's "Maat Revealed"

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This paper relates that Anna Mancini's "Maat Revealed: Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt" states that, unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system in writing but rather had an idea of justice, which modern minds can hardly understand. The paper presents a brief chapter by chapter review and summary of the book and concludes that the contribution Mancini may have made to the field is almost entirely drowned out in her long angry criticism against scholars who have not come to the same conclusion as herself. Therefore, the book does not contribute to Egyptology, the history of religions, or the modern philosophy of law.

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The author also claims that the ancient Egyptians were in no way religious but rather entirely scientific, although she caveats that the ancient Egyptian concept of science was in no way the same as our own. She cites overtly religious overtones in temple rituals as signs of the corruption of the pure Egyptian scientific understanding of the rites, dismisses immediately anything with magical significance, and then evidences the lack of any sort of energy exchange left in the dissected ritual remains as "proof" that Egyptian "religion" had suffered a complete break down. "

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