The price of monotheism /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The 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 iconolatory
- 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 the 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
- Counter-religion and the concept of sin.