Moses the Egyptian : the Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
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Preface; 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt; 2. Suppressed History, Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten; 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist; 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed; 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions; 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming; Notes; Index