The Price of Monotheism
Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the truth it proclaims. This exclusion has exploded time and again i…
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Weitere Autoren: Savage, Robert (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-6159-8
- EAN: 9780804761598
- Produktnummer: 4848326
- Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
Über den Autor
Jan Assmann is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. A prize-winning scholar, he has published extensively on religious history and ancient Egypt. Stanford published his Religion and Cultural Memory in 2006.
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