Egypt : temple of the whole world : studies in honour of Jan Assmann = Agypten : Tempel der gesammten Welt / edited by Sibylle Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Assmann, Jan.

Meyer, Sibylle.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 97.

Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Religion.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Agypten

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

\'The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt\' – once wrote Jan Assmann – \'can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding.\' This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and continues unto this day, more often than not as a scholarly search for the oldest roots of our cultural memory. Jan Assmann's superb academic achievement undoubtedly represents the single most significant contribution to the modern understanding of Ancient Egypt, reaching far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology proper. The essays in this volume, all written by his friends and disciples, reflect the tremendous impact of his oeuvre on the scholarly world, encompassing not only Egyptological and related themes, but also central aspects of Judaeo-Christian identity such as monotheism and the historical events surrounding the recently discovered Diaspora temple of Yahu on the island of Elephantine.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Sibylle Meyer

Remembering the Desert / Moshe Barasch

Zur Konzeption der Bilder in Seitenanlagen am Grabhof der 18. Dynastie / Barbara Engelmann-v. Carnap

“Tempel der ganzen Welt”—Ägypten und Rom / Hubert Cancik and Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier

Rationale Mysterien? Eine Interpretationsoption für die Zauberflöte / Florian Ebeling

Pharaonische Beschneidung / Erika Feucht

Middle Kingdom hymns, other Sundry religious texts —an inventory / Detlef Franke

Getting the ritual right—fishtail knives in Predynastic Egypt / Thomas Hikade

Tempel und Kathedrale—Victor Hugo als Kulturhistoriker / Mirco Hüneburg

Der Tempel als Kosmos—Zur kosmologischen Bedeutung des Tempels in der Umwelt Israels / Bernd Janowski

Monotheismus und politische Theologie bei einem israelitischen Prof eten im babylonischen Exil / Klaus Koch

Alltagsjuden, Sabbatjuden—Metamorphosen der judischen Festkultur / Daniel Krochmalnik

Die Grosse Bauinschrift von Abydos / Claudia Maderna-Sieben

Principiis obsta (Bauer B2, 95-97) / Jürgen Osing

Und sie töteten ihn doch ... Der Ritualmord am König in der Frühzeit / Jean-Pierre Pätznik

Tempel des Jahu und “Straße des Königs”—Ein Konflikt in der späten Perserzeit auf Elephantine / Cornelius von Pilgrim

“Ich bin Isis, die Herrin der beiden Länder”—Versuch zum demotischen Hintergrund der memphitischen Isisaretalogie / Joachim Friedrich Quack

Namen in einer Heiligen Stadt / Dietrich Raue

Hermes und Plotin / Benedikt Rothöhler

What does the word “religious” mean in Reinhold’s “religious Freemasonry”? / Jan A.M. Snoek

Gärten in thebanischen Grabanlagen / Harco Willems

Temple of the Whole World-Gods / Sibylle Meyer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46775-4

9786610467754

1-4237-1438-5

90-474-0252-9

OCLC:

171583226

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402527 DOI