Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

A brilliant study...World-renowned as a specialist on Egyptian texts, beliefs, and rituals, Assmann combines great technical virtuosity in his chosen field with wide--very wide--theoretical and comparative interests...Elegantly argued, impressively documented, and written in eloquent English, Moses the Egyptian offers challenging new findings on the early history of monotheism, and a new reading of the place of Egypt in modern Western culture--and it puts both into the larger context of a theory of cultural memory.

• Preface 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt 2. Suppressed History, Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming. Notes Index

Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

A brilliant study...World-renowned as a specialist on Egyptian texts, beliefs, and rituals, Assmann combines great technical virtuosity in his chosen field with wide--very wide--theoretical and comparative interests...Elegantly argued, impressively documented, and written in eloquent English, Moses the Egyptian offers challenging new findings on the early history of monotheism, and a new reading of the place of Egypt in modern Western culture--and it puts both into the larger context of a theory of cultural memory.

• Preface 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt 2. Suppressed History, Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming. Notes Index

Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg.

A brilliant study...World-renowned as a specialist on Egyptian texts, beliefs, and rituals, Assmann combines great technical virtuosity in his chosen field with wide--very wide--theoretical and comparative interests...Elegantly argued, impressively documented, and written in eloquent English, Moses the Egyptian offers challenging new findings on the early history of monotheism, and a new reading of the place of Egypt in modern Western culture--and it puts both into the larger context of a theory of cultural memory.

• Preface 1. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Egypt 2. Suppressed History, Repressed Memory: Moses and Akhenaten 3. Before the Law: John Spencer as Egyptologist 4. The Moses Discourse in the Eighteenth Century 5. Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed 6. Conceiving the One in Ancient Egyptian Traditions 7. Abolishing the Mosaic Distinction: Religious Antagonism and Its Overcoming. Notes Index