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Moses the Egyptian

The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism

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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.

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Moses the Egyptian, Jan Assmann

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1998
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Title
Moses the Egyptian
Subtitle
The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Language
English
Released
1998
Format
Paperback
Pages
288
ISBN10
0674587391
ISBN13
9780674587397
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4.25 out of 5
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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.