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Monotheism is based on what Assmann calls "the Mosaic Distinction," the radical cleavage between the claimed true religion, monotheism, and the polytheistic religions it negates.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

Egyptologist Jan Assmann, in his justly celebrated study Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism, has shown that Egypt has played a special role in the monotheistic imagination.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

Monotheism is based on what Assmann calls "the Mosaic Distinction," the radical cleavage between the claimed true religion, monotheism, and the polytheistic religions it negates.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

This, Assmann, argues, was a radical departure from earlier religious traditions: polytheism allowed for the coexistence of many religions: it was a matter of course that there are many gods, and neighboring religions could communicate and even merge by putting different gods into the pantheon, sometimes merging and identifying between various gods.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

Egyptologist Jan Assmann, in his justly celebrated study Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism, has shown that Egypt has played a special role in the monotheistic imagination.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

This, Assmann, argues, was a radical departure from earlier religious traditions: polytheism allowed for the coexistence of many religions: it was a matter of course that there are many gods, and neighboring religions could communicate and even merge by putting different gods into the pantheon, sometimes merging and identifying between various gods.

Carlo Strenger: Israel's Modern Exodus: Faith In Egyptian Democratization Carlo Strenger 2011

The skinny: Capital and junior QB Marty Assmann bring the top passing offense in the Ohio Athletic Conference (324 yards a game), but the Crusaders must try to slow the Purple Raiders 'rushing offense (258.5 a game), which also leads the OAC.

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Since I don't have the whole list either — and since I am irredeemably juvenile — I've made a list of my own: Assmann, Dinkhoff, Fuckens, Humplik, Shitler, and the ever-popular Buttafuoco.

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In a personal memorandum to Vice-Admiral Assmann, dated 30 January 1944, Raeder wrote that, if air supremacy was achieved, 'I considered success possible: I accordingly prosecuted the preparations with the greatest urgency, and on the part of the Navy they were finished in time for an autumn landing.'

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

Fears held for missing man Paul Assmann THE family of missing Greenwood man Paul Assmann have made an impassioned plea for people who have information about his whereabouts to come forward to police.

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