Moses the Egyptian

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 false.

Autorentext
Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

Klappentext
Renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses back to that of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). He then shows how the followers of Moses denied and condemned the Egyptians as polytheistic idolaters. Thus began the cycle in whcih every "counter religion" denounced all others as false. Assmann presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs. Illus.


Zusammenfassung
Assmann uses Moses as a figure of memory to study the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification.

Inhalt
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 18th century; Sigmund Freud - the return of the repressed; conceiving the One in ancient Egyptian traditions; abolishing the Mosaic distinction - relgious antagonism and its overcoming.

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