The Invention of Religion(English, Paperback, Assmann Jan)

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The Invention of Religion(English, Paperback, Assmann Jan) is written by Assmann Jan and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691203199 (ISBN 10) and 9780691203195 (ISBN 13).

A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. First introduced in Exodus, new ideas of faith, revelation, and above all covenant transformed basic assumptions about humankind's relationship to the divine and became the bedrock of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.