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The invention of religion : faith and covenant in the book of Exodus / Jan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage.
LIBRA BS1199.E93 A88 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Assmann, Jan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses (Biblical leader).
- Moses.
- Exodus, The.
- Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event).
- Jews--History--To 1200 B.C.
- Jews.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part 1 General Foundations
- Chapter 1 Theme and Structure of the Book of Exodus 11
- Exodus (Chapters 1-15): God Reveals His Name-God Reveals His Power 11
- Sinai-Calling, Covenant, and Law (Chapters 15-24): The Way to Sinai-God Reveals the Covenant 20
- Divine Presence (Chapters 25-40): God Reveals the Tabernacle-Revelation of the Divine Being: Breach and Reconciliation-The Tabernacle Is Built-The Revelation Concludes: God's Permanent Presence 25
- Chapter 2 The Historical Background: Event and Remembrance 32
- Memories: The Hyksos-Amarna-Habiru/'apiru-Waves of Migration, Sea People-Theocracy 34
- Experiences: Miraculous Redemption from Mortal Danger-The "Secession of the Northern Tribes": The First Occasion for Remembering the Exodus?-Israel Refounded: The Principal Occasion for Remembering the Exodus 47
- Chapter 3 Textual History and the History of Meaning 55
- Redaction as "Cultivation of Meaning": Textual Layering in the Bible 55
- From Myth to Canon and Back 74
- The "Mosaic Distinctions" and the Monotheism of Loyalty 79
- Part 2 The Exodus
- Chapter 4 The Tribulations of the Israelites and the Birth of the Savior 93
- Bondage in Egypt 93
- The Birth of the Child 106
- Moses's Childhood and Upbringing 114
- Chapter 5 God Reveals His Name: Moses at the Burining Bush 117
- Moses Is Called 117
- God Renews His Promise 123
- Excursus I The Burning Bush in Schoenberg's Opera Moses und Aron 126
- I Am That I Am 131
- Chapter 6 Signs and Wonders: God Reveals His Power 138
- The Plagues of Egypt 138
- The Egyptian-Hellenistic Tradition 154
- The Institution of the Passover Feast and the Passover Haggadah 161
- Excursus II Moses's Song of Thanksgiving and Handel's Oratorio Israel in Egypt 173
- Part 3 The Covenant
- Chapter 7 The Calling of the People 181
- Holy People and Portable Fatherland 181
- The Torah as Memory 191
- The Development of the Covenant Idea: Bridal and Filial Metaphors 196
- Chapter 8 Treaty and Law 204
- The Deconstruction of Kingship: Treaty and Law as the Constitution of God's People 204
- The Ten Commandments 209
- The Covenant Code and the Solemnization of the Covenant 224
- Excursus III "Excarnation" and Theologization of the Law 236
- Excursus IV The Decalogue and Egyptian Norms for Judging the Dead 240
- Chapter 9 Reistance: Moses and the Violent Fate of the Prophets 253
- Murmuring in the Desert 253
- The Murder of Moses? 271
- The Violent Fate of the Prophets 276
- Chapter 10 The Institutionalization of Divine Presence 287
- YHWH Comes to Dwell among His People 287
- The Golden Calf: The Original Sin against the Covenant 302
- Excursus V The Golden Calf in Schoenberg's Opera Moses und Aron 317
- A "Book of the Temple"? 322.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691157081
- 9780691157085
- OCLC:
- 1005122528
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