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Author Assmann, Jan.

Title Moses the Egyptian : the memory of Egypt in western monotheism / Jan Assmann.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  221.92 M853Da 1998    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvard Univ. Press pbk. ed.
Description x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note Originally published: 1997.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-266) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Moses (Biblical leader)
Monotheism -- History of doctrines.
Egypt -- Religion.
Added Title Memory of Egypt in western monotheism
ISBN 0674587391 (pbk.)
0674587383 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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