From Akhenaten to Moses Assmann Jan
From Akhenaten to Moses Assmann Jan The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different…
Specifikacia From Akhenaten to Moses Assmann Jan
From Akhenaten to Moses Assmann Jan
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. 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.
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
Moses the Egyptian - Assmann Jan
Moses and Akhenaten Osman Ahmed
Jan Assmann - Ma'at
Panství a spása - Jan Assmann
Akhenaten
Akhenaten Montserrat Dominic
Moses
Assmann , Aleida