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Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

Moses the Egyptian

The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism

by Jan Assmann

Assmann traces how Europeans remembered Moses as an Egyptian initiate, from antiquity through Renaissance Hermeticism to Freud, and how this memory shaped debates about revelation and ancient wisdom.

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