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The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus
By Assmann, Jan
- ISBN
- 9780691157085
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on February 1, 2018 | Spirituality and Religion
The story of the Exodus has been a defining trope in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Assmann (emeritus, Egyptology, Univ. of Heidelberg; Moses the Egyptian) submits that its genius moves beyond the conception of God as comic creator in the ancient Near East to a creator entering history and being in relation to a people as liberator and sovereign. This in turn, binds the pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
