From Akhenaten to Moses : ancient Egypt and religious change /
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exo...
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Cairo ; New York :
American University In Cairo Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion
- Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and Trauma
- From Polytheism to Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution?
- Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and History
- Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial Age
- Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of Enlightenment
- Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and Violence.