TY - BOOK ID - 77879431 TI - The price of monotheism PY - 2010 SN - 080477286X 9780804772860 9780804761598 0804761590 9780804761604 0804761604 PB - Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Monotheism KW - Paganism KW - Religion and culture KW - Culture and religion KW - Culture KW - Civilization, Pagan KW - Heathenism KW - Religions KW - History. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77879431 AB - Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the t ER -