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  • From Akhenaten to Moses

    Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

    by Jan Assmann ...
    A critical examination of the origins and development of monotheismThe shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses—a figure of history and a figure of tradition—symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Religion

    Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus

    by Jan Assmann ...
    "Beautifully written, capacious, learned. . . . sure to become a touchstone for scholars and readers interested in the Bible . . . and the history of monotheism." —Jonathan Sheehan, University of California, BerkeleyThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moses the Egyptian

    by Jan Assmann ...
    "Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory—a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus

    Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times

    by Florian Ebeling ...
    Translated by David Lorton ...
    "Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric, the Platonist, or the deist has each been able to find something familiar in the writings. One just ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Price of Monotheism

    by Jan Assmann ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Religio Duplex

    How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion

    by Jan Assmann ...
    In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Freud and Monotheism

    Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

    by Gilad Sharvit, Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz, Joel Whitebook0 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious and mystical practices in “Obsessive Neurosis and Religious Practices,” and the exegesis of the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt

    by Jan Assmann ...
    Translated by David Lorton ...
    "Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom

    RE, Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism

    by Jan Assmann ...
    Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Golden Builders

    Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons

    by Tobias Churton ...
    A leading scholar of esoteric spirituality uncovers the history of Gnostic alchemy from Hellenistic Alexandria to the Renaissance.In The Golden Builders, Tobias Churton eschews myth and pseudohistory to trace 1,600 years of Hermetic spiritual and philosophical development. In a breathtaking span of detailed research, he sheds light on the origins of Gnostic alchemy, pre-Grand Lodge Freemasonry, ... Read more

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  • The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians

    The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society

    by Tobias Churton ...
    The first complete historical and philosophical investigation into the “invisible fraternity” of the Rosicrucians• Contains the latest research on the origins of the Rosicrucian movement• Presents the ties between Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Templars• Written by a “perfected” Knight of the Rose Croix and the Pelican (18th degree, Ancient and Accepted Rite)For nearly 400 years, incredible ... Read more

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  • The Quest For Hermes Trismegistus

    by Gary Lachman ...
    From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great one', as he was often called -- on the western mind. For centuries his name ranked among the most illustrious of the ancient world. Considered by some a contemporary of Moses and a forerunner of Christ, ... Read more

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