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From Akhenaten to Moses : ancient Egypt and religious change
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From Akhenaten to Moses : ancient Egypt and religious change / Jan Assmann.
ISBN
9781617975899 (ebook) :
Publication
Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii-ix, 155 pages)
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Summary
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses - a figure of history and a figure of tradition - symbolise 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.
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Cairo scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 16, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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