Moses the Egyptian The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism |
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| Author:
| Assmann, Jan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-58739-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $72.95 |
Book Description:
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Assmann uses Moses as a figure of memory to study the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification.
Assmann uses Moses as a figure of memory to study the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification.