Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism [George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History]

Assmann, Jan

ISBN 10: 0299225542 / ISBN 13: 9780299225544

Editore: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008

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Paperback. Red pen underlining and markings with yellow highlighting on pages 39, 63-67, and 161. Slight wear on upper and lower edges fo text. Otherwise VG 196 pp.

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• Titolo: Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism [George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History]
• Editore: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0299225542
• ISBN 13: 9780299225544
• Rilegatura: Brossura

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Riassunto

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark—a distinction between one true God and many false gods—was once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism that was once so commonplace.
    Jan Assmann, one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Egypt working today, traces the concept of a true religion back to its earliest beginnings in Egypt and describes how this new idea took shape in the context of the older polytheistic world that it rejected. He offers readers a deepened understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on his concept of the “Mosaic distinction,” which conceives an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets religion apart from beliefs shunned as superstition, paganism, or heresy.
    Without a theory of polytheism, Assmann contends, any adequate understanding of monotheism is impossible.

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Jan Assmann is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. He is also Honorary Professor of Cultural Theory at Konstanz University and had been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A prize-winning scholar, he has published extensively on religious history and ancient Egypt.

Jan Assmann is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. He is also Honorary Professor of Cultural Theory at Konstanz University and had been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A prize-winning scholar, he has published extensively on religious history and ancient Egypt.