Has anyone got any opinions on Erik Hornung's 'The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife'? I have his other book, the conceptions one, on order and am wondering whether to get this as well.
I'm particularly interested in three areas (ma'at/isfet, heka, and Djehuty), which don't sound particularly funerary, but then again funerary texts are sources for a lot of things so I don't want to be too hasty.
I haven't read that one, but I have his book on monotheism. It was a good read, IIRC, though it's buried in the inaccessible Room of Advancing Entropy right now, and it's been a while. Make sure you get a good translation; I seem to recall that Mr Hornung is not a native English speaker.
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