From Akhenaten to Moses (eBook)

Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

Jan Assmann (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
168 Seiten
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
9781617975745 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion
Cult
Theology
The Guidance of Life
Chapter 2: Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma
The Mnemohistory of the Exodus
Narrative Structure
Remember the Exodus
The Seder Liturgy
Exodus and Utopia
Chapter 3: From Poly- to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution
Evolution in Nature and Culture
From Monolatry to Monotheism
Egypt and Religious Change
Chapter 4: Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History
Moses and Akhenaten
Akhenaten
The Egyptian Trauma
The Legend of the 'Lepers'
The Reinterpretation of the Pyramids
Exodus and Trauma
Chapter 5: Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age
The Theory of the Axial Age
Writing as an Agent of Change
Literacy and Cultural Memory
Secondary Canonization and the Rise of Exegesis
Chapter 6: Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment
The 'Mystery Fever' in the Late Eighteenth Century
The Imagined 'Egyptian Mysteries' and their Grammatological and Topological Basis
The Magic Flute and the Egyptian Mysteries
Chapter 7: Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence
The Concept of Ernstfall
The Religious Ernstfall
The Maccabean Wars: An Early Case of Religious Violence
Depoliticizing Religion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: ancient civilizations • Ancient Egyptian Culture • Axial Age theory • Comparative Cultural Studies • Cultural model of Egyptian mysteries • Cultural Transformation • Evolution Of Faith • Evolution of human culture • historical cultural analysis • historical theology • Monotheistic revolution • Mythology and symbolism • Polytheism vs monotheism • Symbolism in ancient cultures • Transition from polytheism
• ISBN-13: 9781617975745 / 9781617975745