02912cam a22004097i 4500 63484 63484 18457923 OSt 20240530110644.0 150121s2014 ua b 001 0 eng d 016604313 Uk 9789774167492 YDXCP eng YDXCP rda BTCTA BDX ERASA UKMGB NBH BRZ OCLCQ SZR MEAUC DLC lccopycat f-ua--- 21 932 CC/A F Assmann, Jan. From Akhenaten to Moses : ancient Egypt and religious change / by Jan Assmann. Cairo ; New York : American University In Cairo Press, 2014. vii-ix, 155 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion -- Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma -- From Polytheism to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution? -- Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History -- Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age -- Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment -- Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence. 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. --publisher's description. Moses (Biblical leader) Akhenaton, King of Egypt. Egypt Religion. Egypt Kings and rulers. Egypt History Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466331-t.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466331-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466331-b.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 CAI CAI CAIRO-LIBRARY 2017-10-29 0 932 CC/A F 163549 2017-10-29 00:00:00 2017-10-29 BK