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Chargement... Moïse l'Egyptien : Un essai d'histoire de la mémoirepar Jan Assmann
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Assman is an Egyptologist by profession, but this book is a more general work of "mnemohistory," in which he sets forth a history of the development of the "Mosaic distinction." It is an example of the best and most responsible sort of historical deconstruction, with the aim of sleuthing out "religious antagonism and its overcoming," which should be welcome to sagacious readers everywhere. It provides a serious, detailed treatment about the historical figure of Moses as it has been alternately opposed to and aligned with evolving appreciation for ancient Egyptian religion. After some intellectual background, the first set of chapters begin by treating classical literary sources, and then work through an historical sequence beginning with English Hebraist John Spencer (1630-1693), and progressing through Renaissance Hermetists, Enlightenment freethinkers (at which point expressly Masonic contributions to the topic start to appear), Spinozists, Friedrich Schiller, and 19th Century "cosmotheism," to Freud's Moses and Monotheism. That survey concluded, Assmann returns to ancient Egypt and shares some of the latest contemporary research on the Amarna religion (or anti-religion) of Akhenaten, long espoused as the possible point of origin for Western monotheism. That chapter should be of value to anyone interested in mysticism or esoteric traditions, as it treats an ancient approach to the divine as Light.
“[Moses the Egyptian] opens up a question that is crucial to adherents of all three religions that claim their origin in biblical Judaism. That question has to do with the religious distinction between truth and falsehood. It seems natural to a Jew, a Christian or a Muslim to consider his or her own religion true and other religions false. This tendency is especially strong in Christianity. But according to Egyptologist Jan Assman, people who practised the ancient religions we call pagan did not see the world in this way. People of difference nations might worship difference sets of goddesses and gods, but there were alternative expressions of the same underlying reality.” “A brilliant study...World-renowned as a specialist on Egyptian texts, beliefs, and rituals, Assmann combines great technical virtuosity in his chosen field with wide--very wide--theoretical and comparative interests...Elegantly argued, impressively documented, and written in eloquent English, Moses the Egyptian offers challenging new findings on the early history of monotheism, and a new reading of the place of Egypt in modern Western culture--and it puts both into the larger context of a theory of cultural memory.”— Appartient à la série éditoriale
Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Om rekening te houden met de complexiteit van de fundamentele gebeurtenis waardoor het monotheïsme werd gevestigd, gaat Mozes de Egyptenaar terug naar de kortstondige monotheïstische revolutie van de Egyptische koning Achnaton (1360-1340 v.G.T.). Assmann herleidt het monotheïsme van Mozes tot deze bron en laat vervolgens zien hoe zijn volgelingen de Egyptenaren elk aandeel in de oorsprong van hun geloof ontkenden en hen veroordeelden als polytheïstische afgodendienaars. Zo begon de cyclus waarin elke ‘tegenreligie’, door zichzelf als waarheid te profileren, alle andere als vals bestempelde. Assmann reconstrueert deze cyclus als een patroon van historisch misbruik, en volgt de permutaties ervan van oude bronnen, waaronder de Bijbel, via renaissancedebatten over de basis van religie tot aan Sigmund Freuds Mozes en Monotheïsme. Assmann, een van de grote egyptologen van onze tijd en een uitzonderlijk wetenschapper op het gebied van geschiedenis en literatuur, is op unieke wijze toegerust voor deze onderneming: een voorbeeldige casestudy van de wisselvalligheden van het historische geheugen, die ook een overtuigende les is in de vloeibaarheid van culturele identiteit en overtuigingen. ( )