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      Egyptian Solar Religion

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      First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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

      Jan Assmann

      Explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism. This book offers readers an understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on the concept of the Mosaic…

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

      Jan Assmann

      Explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism. This book offers readers an understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on the concept of the Mosaic…

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      From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

      Jan Assmann

      The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

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      Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism

      Jan Assmann

      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…

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      Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion

      Jan Assmann

      In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of ‘religio duplex’…

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      Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion

      Jan Assmann

      In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of ‘religio duplex’…

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      Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination

      Jan Assmann (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)

      Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory and applies this…

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      Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination

      Jan Assmann (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)

      Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory and applies this…

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      Egypt - Temple of the Whole World: Studies in Honour of Jan Assmann

      The essays in this volume, all written by friends and disciples of the renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann, reflect his tremendous impact on the scholarly world and encompass a wealth of…

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      Zur Aktualitat von Jan Assmann: Einleitung in sein Werk

      Jurgen Schraten,Jurgen Schraten

      Die kontroversen Arbeiten uber die agyptischen Spuren in der biblischen Exodus-Erzahlung reflektieren eine intensive Debatte zwischen verschiedenen Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften und bilden den UEbergang zum dritten Teil, der die Wirkungsgeschichte…

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      Das Verschleierte Bild Zu Sais: Schillers Ballade Und Ihre Griechischen Und AEgyptischen Hintergrunde

      Egyptologist Jan Assmann (University of California Berkeley)

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      Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies

      Jan Assmann

      Through a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays.

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      The Price of Monotheism

      Jan Assmann

      Explores the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of ‘counter-religions’, and of book religions versus cultic religions. This title deals with the entry of ethics into religion’s very core. It…

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      The Price of Monotheism

      Jan Assmann

      Explores the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of ‘counter-religions’, and of book religions versus cultic religions. This title deals with the entry of ethics into religion’s very core. It…

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      Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt

      Jan Assmann

      Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt.

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      The Search for God in Ancient Egypt

      Jan Assmann

      First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world’s most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for…

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      The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus

      Jan Assmann

      Translation of: Exodus, die Revolution der alten Welt.

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      The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus

      Jan Assmann

      Translation of: Exodus, die Revolution der alten Welt.

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      Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies

      Jan Assmann

      Through a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays.

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      The Search for God in Ancient Egypt

      Jan Assmann (Professor of Egyptology, Heidelberg University, Germany)

      First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world’s most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for…

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      Representation in Religion: Studies in Honor of Moshe Barasch

      The volume consists of presentations made at an international conference. Authors consider the issues concerning the role of representation in religion across a variety of traditions, from the three Abrahamic…

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      Kulturwirkungen des Christentums?: Betrachtungen zu Thomas Karlaufs Stauffenberg und Jan Assmanns Totaler Religion

      Christoph Strohm

      Kulturwirkungen des Christentums werden heute entweder ausgesprochen kontrovers diskutiert oder sie geraten aus dem Blick. Grunde dafur sind unter anderem der Ruckgang kirchlicher Bindungen und der Gestaltwandel der Religion in…

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      Images Et Rites de la Mort Dans l'Egypte Ancienne: L'Apport Des Liturgies Funeraires

      Egyptologist Jan Assmann (University of California Berkeley)

      La mise en uvre de moyens de survivre par dela la mort, question centrale de la culture egyptienne, a ete le biais pour rendre traitable cette realite incontournable du destin…

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      The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times

      Florian Ebeling

      In this introduction to Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes, tracing their influence on Western…

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      The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times

      Florian Ebeling

      In this introduction to Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes, tracing their influence on Western…

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      Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience

      The papers in this volume were delivered a the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995.

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      Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

      Current climate change - global w arming - is one recognised consequence of this larger problem. To face this major challenge, we will need the research and advice of many…

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      Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

      Current climate change - global w arming - is one recognised consequence of this larger problem. To face this major challenge, we will need the research and advice of many…

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      Never Ending Stories: The Loop in Art, Film, Architecture, Music, Literature and Cultural History

      The first comprehensive publication on the endless loop, spanning the ancient world to the present day| In-depth investigation of the phenomenon of circles inside closed systems

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      Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

      Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s…

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      Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

      Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s…

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      Gegenwelten Zu Den Kulturen Griechenlands Und ROMs in Der Antike

      Inhalt: Voraussetzungen und Umfeld: Alter Orient und AEgypten - Von der Antike in die Neuzeit und zuruck - Kulturelle Geographie - Gegenwelten in Bildern: Griechenland - Gegenwelten in Bildern: Rom…

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      Building for Books: Traditions and Visions

      Jan Assmann,Dorothee Bauerle-Willert,Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Anna Klingmann,Werner Oechslin

      Book collections and spaces both private and public have long been a fascinating part of our culture. In this book the high points in library history are evoked and analyzed…

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