From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change by Assmann, Jan

From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789774167492)

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From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change by Assmann, Jan

From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

$19.95
From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change by Assmann, Jan

From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses symbolize this shift. 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, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.

Author: Jan Assmann
ISBN-10: 977416749X
ISBN-13: 9789774167492
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.50d
By Jan Assmann
By Jan Assmann
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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 and The Price of Monotheism.

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