Moses the Egyptian the memory of Egypt in western monotheism /

Main Author: Assmann, Jan.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Physical Description: x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mnemohistory and the construction of Egypt
  • Suppressed history, repressed memory: Moses and Akhenaten
  • Before the law: John Spencer as Egyptologist
  • The Moses discourse in the eighteenth century
  • Sigmund Freud: the return of the repressed
  • Conceiving the One in ancient Egyptian traditions
  • Abolishing the Mosaic distinction: religious antagonism and its overcoming.