02943nam a2200421Ia 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003500124020003200159035002100191035001800212041001300230050002600243082001600269049000900285100001800294240007300312245009700385260005900482300003700541500018200578504004100760505121000801500004702011650002502058650002302083650003502106655002202141776023102163856008602394910001202480994001202492999001702504ocn589158761OCoLC20200709055240.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu100331s2009    cau     sb    000 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  a9780804772860 (electronic bk.)  a080477286X (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)589158761  a309244b(N$T)1 aenghger 4aBL221b.A87513 2010eb04a202/.11222  aN$TA1 aAssmann, Jan.10aMosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus.lEnglish14aThe price of monotheismh[electronic resource] /cJan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage.  aStanford, Calif. :bStanford University Press,cc2010.  a1 online resource (viii, 140 p.)  a"The Price of Monotheism was originally published in German under the title Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus, c2003, Carl Hanser Verlag"--T.p. verso.  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aThe mosaic distinction and the problem of intolerance. How many religions stand behind the Old Testament? -- What is truth? -- Intolerance, violence, and exclusion -- Constructions of the other : religious satire -- Monotheism, a counter-religion to what? Monotheism versus polytheism -- Akhenaten and Moses : Egyptian and Biblical monotheism -- Monotheism as anti-cosmotheism -- Monotheism as political theology : ethics, justice, freedom -- Law and morality in the "pagan" world and the theologization of justice in monotheism -- The clash of memories : between idolatry and iconoclasm. The legend of the lepers and the Amarna trauma in Egypt -- Iconoclasm and iconolatry -- Prisca theologia and the abolition of the mosaic distinction -- The tightening of the mosaic distinction and the rise of paganology -- Sigmund Freud and progress in intellectuality. The Jewish and Greek options -- The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory -- The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality -- The psychohistorical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book -- Into the crypt -- The invention of the inner self -- Counterreligion and the concept of sin.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aMonotheismxHistory. 0aPaganismxHistory. 0aReligion and culturexHistory. 4aElectronic books.08iPrint version:aAssmann, Jan.sMosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus. English.tPrice of monotheism.dStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010z9780804761604w(DLC)  2009014352w(OCoLC)318100513403NetLibraryuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=309244  acpp5723  a02bN$T  c49726d49726