The price of monotheism / Jan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Assmann, Jan.

Standardized Title:

Mosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monotheism--History.

Monotheism.

Paganism--History.

Paganism.

Religion and culture--History.

Religion and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Summary:

Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the t

Contents:

Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction; 1 The Mosaic Distinction and the Problem of Intolerance; 2 Monotheism-A Counterreligion to What?; 3 The Clash of Memories: Between Idolatry and Iconoclasm; 4 Sigmund Freud and Progress in Intellectuality; 5 The Psychohistorical Consequences of Monotheism; Conclusion; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804772860

080477286X

OCLC:

589158761