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Envisaging the Exodus Story: Meet the Egyptians

Pharaoh’s Divine Role in Maintaining Ma’at (Order)

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Published: April 18, 2016

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  1. He is citing the same tradition as found in Exodus Rabbah 8:9 and other places.

  2. Jan Assmann: Der König als Sonnenpriester. Ein kosmographischer Begleittext zur kultischen Sonnenhymnik in thebanischen Tempeln und Gräbern (= Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo, Bd. 7). Glückstadt 1970; Jan Assmann, Ma’at. Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im alten Ägypten (München: C.H. Beck, 1990), 205-212.

  3. Mia Rikala: "Sacred Marriage in the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: Circumstantial Evidence for a Ritual Interpretation,” in: Sacred Marriages, The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity (eds. M.Nissinen/R. Uro (Hg.); Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008), 115-144.

  4. Wolfgang Helck: Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Abteilung IV, Heft 22: Inschriften der Könige von Amenophis III. bis Haremhab und ihrer Zeitgenossen. Berlin 1958, S. 2027.

Prof. Jan Assmann, z”l, was a Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg and is now Honorary Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at Constance. He received his Ph.D and Dr.habil from Heidelberg, as well as honorary… Read More
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