Moses the Egyptian

The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism

Jan Assmann

    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

  • Cover: Moses the Egyptian
  • A photo of the author

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