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Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

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For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark—a distinction between one true God and lots of false gods—was once once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism that was once once so commonplace.
    Jan Assmann, some of the distinguished scholars of ancient Egypt working these days, traces the idea that of a true religion back to its earliest beginnings in Egypt and describes how this new idea took shape within the context of the older polytheistic world that it rejected. He offers readers a deepened working out of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on his concept of the “Mosaic distinction,” which conceives an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets religion excluding beliefs shunned as superstition, paganism, or heresy.
    And not using a theory of polytheism, Assmann contends, any adequate working out of monotheism is inconceivable.

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