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100 1 _aAssmann, Jan.
240 1 0 _aMosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe price of monotheism
_h[electronic resource] /
_cJan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage.
260 _aStanford, Calif. :
_bStanford University Press,
_cc2010.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 140 p.)
500 _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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 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.
500 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aMonotheism
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPaganism
_xHistory.
650 0 _aReligion and culture
_xHistory.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAssmann, Jan.
_sMosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus. English.
_tPrice of monotheism.
_dStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010
_z9780804761604
_w(DLC) 2009014352
_w(OCoLC)318100513
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