Название: Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western MonotheismАвтор: Jan Assmann
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 289
Размер: 11,82 Мб
Язык: английский
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory--a study, in this case, of 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.