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From Akhenaten to Moses : Ancient Egypt and religious change / Jan Assmann.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Assmann, Jan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses (Biblical leader).
- Moses.
- Akhenaton, King of Egypt.
- Akhenaton.
- Egypt--Kings and rulers.
- Egypt.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion 7
- Cult 8
- Theology 10
- The Guidance of Life 19
- 2 Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma 25
- The Mnemohistory of the Exodus 25
- Narrative Structure 29
- Remember the Exodus 32
- The Seder Liturgy 36
- Exodus and Utopia 41
- 3 From Polytheism to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution? 43
- Evolution in Nature and Culture 43
- From Monolatry to Monotheism 48
- Egypt and Religious Change 52
- 4 Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History 61
- Moses and Akhenaten 61
- Akhenaten 67
- The Egyptian Trauma 69
- The Legend of the Lepers 71
- The Reinterpretation of the Pyramids 72
- Exodus and Trauma 75
- 5 Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age 79
- The Theory of the Axial Age 79
- Writing as an Agent of Change 81
- Literacy and Cultural Memory 83
- Secondary Canonization and the Rise of Exegesis 88
- 6 Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment 95
- The "Mystery Fever" in the Late Eighteenth Century 95
- The Imagined "Egyptian Mysteries" and Their Grammatological and Topological Basis 98
- The Magic Flute and the Egyptian Mysteries 107
- 7 Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence 113
- The Concept of Ernstfall 113
- The Religious Ernstfall 116
- The Maccabean Wars: An Early Case of Religious Violence 119
- Depoliticizing Religion 126.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 8, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Assmann, Jan. From Akhenaten to Moses : Ancient Egypt and religious change.
- ISBN:
- 9781617975820
- OCLC:
- 900885095
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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