The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is Mozart's most popular opera – although it is often unclear to us. What is that country that three boys float over, while a cunning serpent gets up to mischief down below near ...
moreJan Assmann
Jan Assmann was born in 1938 and has taught Egyptology at Heidelberg University since 1976. He has directed a research project in Luxor since 1978. In 1998 he was awarded the German Historians' Prize. Hanser has published Ägypten (1996), Moses der Ägypter (1998), Herrschaft und Heil (2000), Die Mosaische Unterscheidung (2003) and Die Zauberflöte. Oper und Mysterium (2005).
The Mosaic Distinction
Whether Christianity, Judaism or Islam, whether enlightened and tolerant, orthodox and fundamentalist or even militant and aggressive – all monotheistic world religions are children of a ...
morePower and Grace
Worldly monarchs empowered by the Lord's grace, the Pope acting as God's representative in the world: it is not only ancient hierarchies who have legitimized themselves as earthly reflections of ...
morePower and Grace
Worldly monarchs empowered by the Lord's grace, the Pope acting as God's representative in the world: it is not only ancient hierarchies who have legitimized themselves as earthly reflections of ...
moreEgypt
The self-image of the West and Europe's sense of identity derive from the field of tension between two poles: Jerusalem versus Athens, Israel versus Hellas, the revelations of Judeo-Christian ...
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Egypt
The self-image of the West and Europe's sense of identity derive from the field of tension between two poles: Jerusalem versus Athens, Israel versus Hellas, the revelations of Judeo-Christian ...
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