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100 1 _aAssmann, Jan.
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245 1 0 _aFrom Akhenaten to Moses :
_bancient Egypt and religious change /
_cby Jan Assmann.
250 _a[US & CA version]
260 _aCairo ;
_aNew York :
_bAmerican University In Cairo Press,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource (vii-ix, 155 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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520 0 _aThe 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, 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. --publisher's description.
505 0 0 _aStructure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion --
_tMyth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma --
_tFrom Polytheism to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution? --
_tMoses and Akhenaten: Memory and History --
_tAncient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age --
_tEgyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment --
_tTotal Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence.
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600 0 0 _aMoses
_c(Biblical leader)
600 0 0 _aAkhenaton,
_cKing of Egypt.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell