Moses the Egyptian : the memory of Egypt in western monotheism /
Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as fals...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1997.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Mnemohistory and the construction of Egypt
- Suppressed history, repressed memory: Moses and Akhenaten
- Before the law: John Spencer as Egyptologist
- The Moses discourse in the eighteenth century
- Sigmund Freud: the return of the repressed
- Conceiving the One in ancient Egyptian traditions
- Abolishing the Mosaic distinction: religious antagonism and its overcoming.