{"id":1599,"date":"2012-04-04T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2012-04-17T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:18:58","slug":"assmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/2012\/04\/04\/assmann\/","title":{"rendered":"German Egyptologist Jan Assmann on the Maccabees, Monotheism, and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last IPR\/EWCJS lecture in this year&#8217;s series, which took place on April 4, the renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Jan Assman (Heidelberg\/Konstanz), spoke on &#8220;Politics, Religion, and Violence in the Maccabean Wars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor  Jan Assmann taught Egyptology at Heidelberg University from 1992 till  2003 and has been Honorary Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies  at Constance University since 2005. His wide ranging work explores  ancient Egyptian religion, literature and history, cultural theory and  memory, the reception of Egypt in Europe and historical anthropology. He has taught  as visiting professor in Paris, Jerusalem and several American  universities including Rice, Yale and Chicago. His books in English  include  Moses the Egyptian (1997),  The Search for God in Ancient Egypt  (2002), Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (2006) and The Price of  Monotheism (2009).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The respondent was Prof. Martin Kavka (FSU).\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><em><em><em><em><em><em> <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last IPR\/EWCJS lecture in this year&#8217;s series, which took place on April 4, the renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Jan Assman (Heidelberg\/Konstanz), spoke on &#8220;Politics, Religion, and Violence in the Maccabean Wars.&#8221; Professor Jan Assmann taught Egyptology at Heidelberg University from 1992 till 2003 and has been Honorary Professor of Cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}