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Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Jan Assmann
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| #1021914 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1998-10-15 | 1998-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.23 x.68 x6.15l,.90 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The foundation story of all Western Religions, in Spellbinding prose!|By Minnesotan|This is the most fascinating book I've found in years! Assmann brings profound insight into both the historical aspect of this story, but a shrew understanding of how our collective memory of this period has shifted and changed over time - and geography. How historians back to Manetho have give||A brilliant study...World-renowned as a specialist on Egyptian texts, beliefs, and rituals, Assmann combines great technical virtuosity in his chosen field with wide--very wide--theoretical and comparative interests...Elegantly argued, impressively documented,
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory--a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reint...
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