Moses the Egyptian : the memory of Egypt in western monotheism
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.
Print Book, English, 1997
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997
x, 276 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674587380, 9780674587397, 0674587383, 0674587391
477057379
Preface 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt 2. Suppressed History, Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming. Notes Index