Ma'at: Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im Alten Aegypten

Jan Assmann is a leading Egyptologist specializing in ancient Egyptian religion, and this C. H. Beck monograph, published in German, is his standard academic study of ma'at, the Egyptian concept encompassing order, truth and justice as an organizing principle of Egyptian religion and society. Its strength is Assmann's standing as the leading scholar of Egyptian religion of his generation, working directly from the Egyptian textual and monumental record to build a systematic account of a concept that runs through nearly every domain of Egyptian religious and political thought. Its limit is that, published only in German, it is accessible directly only to readers of that language, so a claim drawn from it for an English language readership depends on accurate secondary paraphrase or a later translated edition rather than the reader consulting Assmann's own words directly.