Product details
ISBN
9780674587380
Published
1997-07-01
Publisher
Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press
Weight
560 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
284
Author
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.
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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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Product details
ISBN
9780674587380
Published
1997-07-01
Publisher
Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press
Weight
560 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
284
Author