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Suchwort: "Near"
Stichwort: Exodus - 2 Artikel
Essay 17.05.2013 […] hebräischen Bibel im Blick habe (Ex 20.5; Dtn 5,9).
[5] "Joseph und seine Brüder", Ausgabe in einem Band, Frankfurt 1964, 227.
[6] Vgl. Kang Sa-Moon, "Divine War in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East", Berlin/New York, 1989; Th. v.d.Way, "Göttergericht und "heiliger Krieg" im Alten Ägypten", SAGA 4, 1992.
[7] Gerd Althoff, "Selig sind, die Verfolgung ausüben. Päpste und Gewalt im Hochmittelalter" […] Von
Jan Assmann
Essay 02.05.2013 […] This of course differs from the idea that there is but one God for our people though it is empirically obvious that other groups worship other Gods, what we might call weak monotheism. In the ancient Near East, most tribal groups had their God(s), particular Gods associated with particular tribes. This was no different for the Hebrews, who--perhaps lacking in mythic imagination or preferring pantheonic […] cultural sway so too should we credit and criticize Persia's.
As for the Hebrews, some did return to Israel after liberation by the Persians, though most stayed in Babylon or spread throughout the Near East and North Africa. In this, the sixth century BCE, the Jews in these various locations held to something closer to strong monotheism. But even at this time it was an iffy proposition. The prophet […] the question of the origin of monotheism is whether the later position of the Jews as the great Other of Christian Europe has colored the lens through which the ancient world is viewed-of whether the Near East of 1200 BCE is being recruited for Europe's deep structural anxieties about The Jew, The Other, Islam, religion, modernity, German guilt about the Holocaust, and resentment at feeling guilty. […] Von
Marcia Pally