
Episode 4: Divine Judgment (The Book of the Dead)
Literature and History
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The Book of the Dead's Differences From the Bible and the Quran
The idea that one might be able to leave a place where things are painful and complex and transcend to a far better one is shared by the modern world's major religions. The Egyptian notion of Ma'at is the first evidence we have of humans concertedly believing that abstract moral laws exist beyond our physical senses, but still ultimately within the power of our intuitions. Many ancient Mediterranean philosophers, like Democritus, Lucipus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, followed by their heirs in the Enlightenment, believed that all of our knowledge comes from our senses. Though scholars have explored the parallels between the story of the physical resurrection of Osiris and the one of Christ and the Gospels
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