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Assmann: Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus. Kartoniert

Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus. Kartoniert
Jan Assmann
286 Seiten. 2003. Ob Christentum, Judentum oder Islam - alle monotheistischen Weltreligionen sind Kinder einer Revolution: die Ablösung der vielen Götter durch den alleinigen Gott.

Erinnertes Ägypten. Pharaonische Motive in der europäischen Religions- und Geistesgeschichte.
Jan Assmann 2010. Kulturwissenschaftliche Interventionen. Bd.6. 2. Aufl.
200 S. m. 26 z. Tl. farb. Abb. 19,5 cm. Gebunden

Herrschaft und Heil. Politische Theologie in Altägypten, Israel und Europa. Kartoniert
Jan Assmann
338 Seiten. 2002. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen Ägyptens und Israels zeigen, fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religiösen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit,Macht, Solidarität, Schuld, Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt, bevor sie ins Religiöse und Theologische transformiert wurden

Maat: Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im Alten Ägypten.
Jan Assmann
319 Seiten, mit 13 Abbildungen. 2001. Welche Kultur hat die Menschen im Alten Ägypten geprägt? Welche Werte und welches Menschenbild bestimmten das Zusammenleben? Welche der zentralen Ideen des Alten Ägypten haben nachgewirkt? Diesen Fragen geht Jan Assmann nach am Leitfaden des Begriffes Maat (Wahrheit, Gerechtigkeit, Weltordnung), der den Angelpunkt des altägyptischen Denkens bildete

Monotheismus und die Sprache der Gewalt. Gebunden
Jan Assmann. Vorw. v. Hubert Chr. Ehalt. Wiener Vorlesungen im Rathaus.
63 Seiten. 3. Auflage 2007. Ein kulturwissenschaftlicher Essay zum Zusammenhang von Gewalt und Religion

Monotheismus und Kosmotheismus. Ägyptische Formen eines 'Denkens des Einen' und ihre Europäische Rezeptionsgeschichte.
Jan Assmann 1993. Paperback, ca. 17x24 cm. 48 S.

Moses the Egyptian. Paperback
Jan Assmann
276 pages, line illustration, 5 halftones. 1998. Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

Of God and Gods. Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
Jan Assmann
200 pages. 2008. For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark, a distinction between one true God and many false gods, was 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 so commonplace.

Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. Paperback
by Jan Assmann
xii, 513 pages, map, chronology, index, key to the Egyptian Gods. 2003. Drawn from a vast array of sources, an unrivaled account of Egyptian civilization delves into the inner life of ancient Egypt, recreating a complex world and culture centuries ahead of their time, from the fifth millennium B.C.E. to the rise of Christianity 4,500 years later. Draws on literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources to depict the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations of the ancient Egyptians

Pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty. Hardcover
Farid Atiya
156 pages, with ca. 200 colour illustrations. 2004. The Fourth Dynasty (2613-2498 B.C.) was Egypt's golden age of pyramid building, when great kings like Snefru, Cheops, and Chephren built their monuments for eternity on a scale unparalleled at any time previously or subsequently in Egyptian history. This book, tells the history of these remarkable monuments and how they were built.

Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.
by Henry Trocme Aubin
464 pages. 2003. In the summer of 701 B.C. Jerusalem faced a siege from Assyrian forces that had razed countless walled cities, pillaging and looting them, dispersing the defeated populations to distant places, and torturing the leaders to death.

Scientific Study of Mummies. Hardback
Arthur C. Aufderheide
626 pages, 17 line diagrams 328 half-tones 6 colour plates. 2002. The fact that bodies decay after death has concerned humans throughout the ages. Many cultures have attempted to arrest this decay, so that bodies are preserved (or mummified) in a state as near to life as possible, but spontaneously mummified bodies are also found.

Atlas of Egyptian Art. Paperback
by E. Prisse d'Avennes. Introduction by Maarten J. Raven. Notes by Olaf E. Kaper
xii, 160 pages, numerous colour illustrations. 2007. This survey of Egyptian art, first published between 1868 and 1878m contains architectural and ornamental drawings

God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740-525 BC). Hardback
By Mariam Ayad. 232 pages, 52 illustrations. 2009. Drawing on textual, iconographic and archaeological evidence, this book highlights a historically documented instance, where five single women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. The women were Libyan and Nubian royal princesses who, consecutively, held the title of God's Wife of Amun during the Egyptian Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth dynasties (c.754–525 BCE).

Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums
235 Seiten - 29,7 × 21,0 cm