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Article: The Moses Complex in Modern Jewish Literature.
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- June 22, 2002
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THE PUBLICATION OF JAN ASSMANN'S MOSES THE EGYPTIAN (1997) has provided the grounds for a revitalization of the study of images of Moses in subsequent culture and, more specifically, the images of Moses in Modern Jewish Literature. (1) The book's subtitle, The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism, encapsulates Assmann's two major concerns: first, how the memory of Egypt has affected western monotheism and much of western culture; second, the theoretical relationship between history and memory, or, more precisely, the memory of history, formulated by Assmann in a coinage of his own: Mnemohistory. Energizing his investigation is another, more latent topic: the history of ...