Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western MonotheismHarvard University Press, 1997 M08 1 - 276 pages 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 reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification. |
Contents
Moses and Akhenaten | 23 |
John Spencer as Egyptologist | 55 |
The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century | 91 |
The Return of the Repressed | 144 |
Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions | 168 |
Index | 267 |
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