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Theologie und Weisheit im alten Ägypten

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Hunderte von Hymnen auf Papyri, in Tempeln und vor allem Gräbern geben Einblick in die Arbeit der ägyptischen Theologen am Gottesbegriff und die rasante, die ägyptische Welt von Grund auf verändernde Entwicklung, die diese Arbeit in den Jahrhunderten von 1500 - 1100, mit der monotheistischen Revolution des Echnaton um 1350 als ihrem Höhe- und Mittelpunkt, genommen hat. Kaum weniger dramatisch und von dieser theologischen Entwicklung nicht zu trennen ist der gleichzeitige Wandel des Menschenbildes in der weisheitlichen Tradition, der die Strömung einer »Persönlichen Frömmigkeit« heraufführt und sich in den Jahrhunderten nach Echnaton allgemein durchsetzt. Jan Assmanns neues Buch beleuchtet diese Wandlungen anhand detaillierter Quellenanalysen.

188 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2004

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Jan Assmann

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Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen. In 1966-67, he was a fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, where he continued as an independent scholar from 1967 to 1971. After completing his habilitation in 1971, he was named a professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg in 1976, where he taught until his retirement in 2003. He was then named an honorary professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Constance, where he is today.

In the 1990s Assmann and his wife Aleida Assmann developed a theory of cultural and communicative memory that has received much international attention. He is also known beyond Egyptology circles for his interpretation of the origins of monotheism, which he considers as a break from earlier cosmotheism, first with Atenism and later with the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites.

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