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      From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

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      The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

      A critical examination of the origins and development of monotheism, now in paperback

      The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world ra...

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      Product ID:9789774167492
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:EG
      Title:From Akhenaten to Moses
      Subtitle:Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
      Authors:Author: Jan Assmann
      Page Count:168
      Subjects:Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology, Ancient Egypt
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      The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

      A critical examination of the origins and development of monotheism, now in paperback

      The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses—a figure of history and a figure of tradition—symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one.

      The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers’ theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.


      Imprint Name:The American University in Cairo Press
      Publisher Name:The American University in Cairo Press
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2016-03-23

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      Weight322 g
      Dimensions153 × 230 × 12 mm