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Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

Assmann, Jan

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Series: George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

Religion General JudaismAncient Egypt

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ISBN10: 0299225542
ISBN13: 9780299225544
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: May 21 2008
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark--a distinction between one true God and many false gods--was once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism that was once so commonplace.

Jan Assmann, one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Egypt working today, traces the concept of a true religion back to its earliest beginnings in Egypt and describes how this new idea took shape in the context of the older polytheistic world that it rejected. He offers readers a deepened understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on his concept of the Mosaic distinction, which conceives an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets religion apart from beliefs shunned as superstition, paganism, or heresy.

Without a theory of polytheism, Assmann contends, any adequate understanding of monotheism is impossible.

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