9789004132405 - Egypt - Temple of the Whole World: Studies in Honour of Jan Assmann: Temple of the Whole World : Studies in Honour of Jan Assmann = Agypten : Tempel ... 97 (Studies... (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. First edition. Octavo. viii, 439, (3)pp. Index. Text in English and German. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. Illustrated with occasional maps, drawings and photographs. A fine, as new copy, but one that is ex-library (with, however, minimal library markings -- i.e. unobtrusive rubber stamps on title page and at bottom of text block, etc.) "The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt" - once wrote Jan Assmann - "can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding." This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and continues unto this day, more often than not as a scholarly search for the oldest roots of our cultural memory. Jan Assmann's superb academic achievement undoubtedly represents the single most significant contribution to the modern understanding of Ancient Egypt, reaching far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology proper. The essays in this volume, all written by his friends and disciples, reflect the tremendous impact of his oeuvre on the scholarly world, encompassing not only Egyptological and related themes, but also central aspects of Judaeo-Christian identity such as monotheism and the historical events surrounding the recently discovered Diaspora temple of Yahu on the island of Elephantine. (Publisher) Contents: Remembering the desert / Moshe Barasch -- Zur Konzeption der Bilder in Seitenanlagen am Grabhof der 18. Dynastie / Barbara Engelmann v. Carnap -- "Tempel der ganzen Welt" : Ägypten und Rom / Hubert Cancik und Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Rationale Mysterien? : eine Interpretationsoption für die Zauberflöte / Florian Ebeling -- Pharaonische Beschneidung / Erika Feucht -- Middle Kingdom hymns, other sundry religious texts : an inventory / Detlef Franke -- Getting the ritual right : fishtail knives in predynastic Egypt / Thomas Hikade -- Tempel und Kathedrale : Victor Hugo als Kulturhistoriker / Mirco Hüneburg -- Der Tempel als Kosmos : zur kosmologischen Bedeutung des Tempels in der Umwelt Israels / Bernd Janowski -- Monotheismus und politische Theologie bei einem israelitischen Profeten im babylonischen Exil / Klaus Koch -- Alltagsjuden, Sabbatjuden : Metamorphosen der jüdischen Festkultur / Daniel Krochmalnik -- Die Grosse Bauinschrift von Abydos / Claudia Maderna-Sieben -- Principiis obsta (Bauer B2, 95-97) / Jürgen Osing -- Und sie töteten ihn doch . : der Ritualmord am König in der Frühzeit / Jean-Pierre Pätznik -- Tempel des Jahu und "Strasse des Königs" : ein Konflikt in der späten Perserzeit auf Elephantine / Cornelius von Pilgrim -- "Ich.; bin Isis, die Herrin der beiden Länder" : Versuch zum demotischen Hintergrund der memphitischen Isisaretalogie / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- Namen in einer Heiligen Stadt / Dietrich Raue -- Hermes und Plotin / Benedikt Rothöhler -- What does the word "religious" mean in Reinhold's "religious Freemasonry"? / Jan A.M. Snoek -- Gärten in thebanischen Grabanlagen / Harco Willems. Volume 97 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.".