From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one.The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analy…
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- ISBN: 978-977-416-631-0
- EAN: 9789774166310
- Produktnummer: 19348747
- Verlag: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 479 g
- Gewicht: 479
Über den Autor
Jan Assmann is a German Egyptologist widely known for his work on the origins of monotheism. Formerly professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, he is now honorary professor of cultural studies at the University of Constance. He is the author of Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (1998) and The Price of Monotheism (2009).
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