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Article: Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, by Jan Assmann. George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 196 pp. $26.95.
This volume comes from the hand of one of the best-known figures in the field of Egyptology. The topic is" the relationship between God and the gods" (p. 1). It concerns what Assmann calls the "Mosaic distinction," which is "the idea of an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets God apart from everything that is not God and therefore must not be worshipped" (p. 1). Exclusivity, though, is not exclusivity of divine existence, as the other gods exist; ...
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