Moses the Egyptian : the memory of Egypt in western monotheism / Jan Assmann.

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Assmann, Jan

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674020306
0674020308

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moses the Egyptian.DDC classification:

222/.1/092 22

LOC classification:

BS580.M6 A79 1997eb

Other classification:

11.09

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Contents:

Mnemohistory and the construction of Egypt -- Suppressed history, repressed memory: Moses and Akhenaten -- Before the law: John Spencer as Egyptologist -- The Moses discourse in the eighteenth century -- Sigmund Freud: the return of the repressed -- Conceiving the One in ancient Egyptian traditions -- Abolishing the Mosaic distinction: religious antagonism and its overcoming.

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Summary: Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-266) and index.

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Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

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