"The Price of Monotheism was originally published in German in 2003 under the title Die mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus 2003, Carl Hanser Verlag."
The mosaic distinction and the problem of intolerance. How many religions stand behind the Old Testament?
What is truth?
Intolerance, violence and exclusion
Constructions of the other : religious satire. Monotheism, a counter-religion to what? Monotheism versus polytheism
Akhenaten and Moses : Egyptian and Biblical monotheism
Monotheism as anti-cosmotheism
Monotheism as political theology : ethics, justice, freedom
Law and morality in the "pagan" world and the theologization of justice in monotheism. The clash of memories : between idolatry and iconoclasm. The legend of the lepers and the Amarna trauma in Egypt
Iconoclasm and iconolatory
Theologia prisca and the abolition of the mosaic distinction
The tightening of the mosaic distinction and the rise of paganology. Sigmund Freud and progress in intellectuality. The Jewish and the Greek option
The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory
The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality. The psycho-historical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book
Into the crypt
The invention of the inner self
Counter-religion and the concept of sin.
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The price of monotheism by Jan Assmann. ISBN 9780804761604. Published by Stanford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
