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From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

Jan Assmann

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9789774166310

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: May 2015

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774166310.001.0001

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Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion

Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion

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(p.7) 1 Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian Religion
Source:
From Akhenaten to Moses
Author(s):

Jan Assmann

Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774166310.003.0002

Religion is defined as comprising three dimensions: cult, theology, and lifestyle. Ancient Egyptian religion is shown to be exceptional in all three of them: the role of the state (cult), the extreme evolution of the concepts of the divine (theology), and the transcendental foundation of lifestyle (judgment of the dead).

Keywords:   cult, sacred kingship, cosmotheism, monotheism, ethics

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