Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann
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Note de l’auteur :
Le texte suivant est une expérience. C’est la première d’une série de « notes » sur des chapitres choisis du livre de Jan Assmann, Moïse l’Egyptien. Mes principaux buts sont d’encourager plus de gens à lire le livre et de les préparer à le lire. (more…)
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Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997
[Tr. fr.: Jan Assmann, Moïse l’Egyptien, Paris, Flammarion, coll. Champs, 2003.]
John Spencer, 1630–1693
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John Spencer, 1630–1693
Because of the positive responses — both online and offline — to my first set of notes, I have decided to continue the series until I have completed Moses the Egyptian. Then we will discuss Assmann’s subsequent books: The Price of Monotheism, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion, and the forthcoming From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change. (more…)
Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann
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Author’s Note:
The following text is an experiment. It is the first of a series of “notes” on select chapters of Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian
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Jan Assmann
Moises el Egipcio
Translated by Javier Alonso López
Madrid: Oberon, 2003
Cuando leí por primera vez Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann en Junio de 1997, fue una experiencia que cambió mi vida. (more…)
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Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish
Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997
When I first read Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian in June of 1997, it was a life-changing experience. Moses the Egyptian belongs to the rarest genre of academic books: the bold and exciting ones. (more…)
Jacques-Albert Cuttat
Jacques-Albert Cuttat
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As East and West is a review devoted not only to the study of Orientalism but also to the problem of the relations between East and West, it may not be out of place to deal here with the ideas on this subject which for some time past Jacques-Albert Cuttat has been championing, though in rather narrow circles.
Cuttat is a Swiss scholar who had devoted himself especially to the comparative study of the different spiritual and religious forms, and who in a first period had joined the French “traditionalist” group heading up by René Guénon. (more…)
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