Moses the Egyptian

Informationen zum Autor Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. Klappentext Renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses back to that of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). He then shows how the followers of Moses denied and condemned the Egyptians as polytheistic idolaters. Thus began the cycle in whcih every "counter religion" denounced all others as false. Assmann presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs. Illus. Zusammenfassung Assmann uses Moses as a figure of memory to study the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification! literary reinterpretation! philological restitution (or falsification)! and psychoanalytic demystification. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt 2. Suppressed History! Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming. Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Jan Assmann, Assmann Jan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.1998
• EAN: 9780674587397
• ISBN: 978-0-674-58739-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Egypt, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Ancient, HISTORY / Historiography, Religion & beliefs, Ancient History, General and world history, Philosophy of religion, Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities