A critical examination of the origins and development of monotheism
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Ancient civilizations
Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
Ancient Egyptian culture
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Axial Age theory
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Comparative cultural studies
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Cultural model of Egyptian mysteries
Cultural transformation
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Evolution of faith
Evolution of human culture
From Akhenaten to Moses
Historical cultural analysis
Historical theology
HISTORY Ancient Egypt
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Monotheistic revolution
Mythology and symbolism
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Polytheism vs monotheism
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RELIGION History
RELIGION Theology
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Symbolism in ancient cultures
Transition from polytheism
Product details
- ISBN 9789774167492
- Weight: 324g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2016
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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, 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.
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).
