Moses the Egyptian. The memory of Egypt in Western monotheism
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780674587380
- ISBN10 0674587383
- Tipus Llibre
- Pàgines 276
- Any Edició 1996
- Encuadernació Tela
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Història Antiga UniversalMoses the Egyptian. The memory of Egypt in Western monotheism
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
To account for the complexities of the foundational event in the establishment of monotheism, Moses the Egyptian goes back to the short-lived monotheistic revolution of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses to this source, and then shows how Moses' followers denied the Egyptians any part in the origin of their beliefs and condemned them as polytheistic idolators. Thus began the cycle in which every "counter-religion," by establishing itself as truth, denounced all others as false. Assmann reconstructs this cycle as a pattern of historical abuse, and tracks its permutations from ancient sources, including the Bible, through Renaissance debates over the basis of religion to Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism.