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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804761604
Size: 54.67 MB
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Release Date: 2009-10-29
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Price Of Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the truth it proclaims. This exclusion has exploded time and again into violence and persecution, with no end in sight. Here, for the first time, Assmann traces the repeated attempts that have been made to do away with this distinction since the early modern period. He explores at length the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of "counter-religions," and of book religions versus cultic religions. He also deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. Informed by the debate his own work has generated, he presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477286X
Size: 28.60 MB
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Release Date: 2009-10-29
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Price Of Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the truth it proclaims. This exclusion has exploded time and again into violence and persecution, with no end in sight. Here, for the first time, Assmann traces the repeated attempts that have been made to do away with this distinction since the early modern period. He explores at length the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of "counter-religions," and of book religions versus cultic religions. He also deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. Informed by the debate his own work has generated, he presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020308
Size: 36.44 MB
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Release Date: 2009-06-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Moses The Egyptian eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774166310
Size: 46.92 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2014
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF From Akhenaten To Moses eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299225534
Size: 27.82 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Of God And Gods eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark—a distinction between one true God and many false gods—was once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism that was once so commonplace. Jan Assmann, one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Egypt working today, traces the concept of a true religion back to its earliest beginnings in Egypt and describes how this new idea took shape in the context of the older polytheistic world that it rejected. He offers readers a deepened understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on his concept of the “Mosaic distinction,” which conceives an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets religion apart from beliefs shunned as superstition, paganism, or heresy. Without a theory of polytheism, Assmann contends, any adequate understanding of monotheism is impossible. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association

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Author: Christoph Markschies
Publisher:
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Size: 25.33 MB
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Release Date: 2021
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Download PDF The Price Of Monotheism Some New Observations On A Current Debate About Late Antiquity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464862
Size: 14.63 MB
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Release Date: 2005-10-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

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Author: James K. Hoffmeier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190266791
Size: 62.90 MB
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Release Date: 2015-02-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Akhenaten And The Origins Of Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd appearance and his preoccupation with worshiping the sun disc Aten have stimulated academic discussion and controversy for more than a century. Despite the numerous books and articles about this enigmatic figure, many questions about Akhenaten and the Atenism religion remain unanswered. In Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism, James K. Hoffmeier argues that Akhenaten was not, as is often said, a radical advocating a new religion, but rather a primitivist: that is, one who reaches back to a golden age and emulates it. Akhenaten's inspiration was the Old Kingdom (2650-2400 B.C.E.), when the sun-god Re/Atum ruled as the unrivaled head of the Egyptian pantheon. Hoffmeier finds that Akhenaten was a genuine convert to the worship of Aten, the sole creator God, based on the Pharoah's own testimony of a theophany, a divine encounter that launched his monotheistic religious odyssey. The book also explores the Atenist religion's possible relationship to Israel's religion, offering a close comparison of the hymn to the Aten to Psalm 104, which has been identified by scholars as influenced by the Egyptian hymn. Through a careful reading of key texts, artworks, and archaeological studies, Hoffmeier provides compelling new insights into a religion that predated Moses and Hebrew monotheism, the impact of Atenism on Egyptian religion and politics, and the aftermath of Akhenaten's reign.

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Author: Rodney Stark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691115009
Size: 71.17 MB
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Release Date: 2003-04-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF One True God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as ''another'' God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God. The three great monotheisms changed everything. With his customary clarity and vigor, Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another. A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world.

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Book Detail:
Author: T. J. Mawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108731171
Size: 80.75 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2019-08-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Monotheism And The Meaning Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Monotheism and the Meaning of Life explores the role of God, and the relationship to the question 'What is the meaning of life?' for adherents of the main monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Exploring the various senses of 'meaning' and 'life', Mawson argues that there are various questions implicit in the notion of the meaning of life and that the God of monotheistic religion is central to the correct answers to all of them.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jonathan Kirsch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626588
Size: 49.36 MB
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Release Date: 2005-01-25
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF God Against The Gods eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." —Publishers Weekly "Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." —David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project "Kirsch tackles the central issue bedeviling the world today - religious intolerance… A timely book, well-written and researched." —Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet and the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power "An intriguing read." —The Jerusalem Report "A timely tale about the importance of religious tolerance in today’s world." —San Francisco Chronicle "Kirsch is a fine storyteller with a flair for rendering ancient tales relevant and appealing." —The Washington Post

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Book Detail:
Author: Walter J. Houston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567071901
Size: 40.57 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1993-02-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Purity And Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The distinction between clean and unclean animals, probably originating in tensions between shepherds and farmers, is in the biblical laws of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 transformed into an important theological principle. In this wide-ranging and elegantly written study, Houston argues that the avoidance of 'unclean' foods is a mark of the exclusive devotion of Israel to one god. In a concluding chapter, it is suggested that the abolition of the distinction in early Christianity corresponds to the universal horizon of the new faith.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gavin Dennis Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108605389
Size: 78.69 MB
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Release Date: 2020-08-20
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Hindu Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), as in the Abrahamic religions, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, sustains it and ultimately destroys it before causing it to emerge once again, who is the ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this idea does develop within that history. It is a Hindu monotheism and its nature that is the topic of this Element.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203199
Size: 11.21 MB
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Release Date: 2020-03-24
Category: Bibles
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805447784
Size: 44.26 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF In The Beginning God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This study about the origin of religion concludes that evidence for monotheism (the belief in one true God who created the world and holds people morally accountable) outweighs the popular view of animism (religion born from the veneration of spirits).

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Author: Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad Āl al-Shaykh
Publisher: Darussalam
ISBN: 9789960892382
Size: 44.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2003
Category: Faith (Islam)
Language: en
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Download PDF eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Kitab At-Tauhid - The Book of Monotheism By: Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab In this book, all the relevant Verses have been discussed reasonably, rationally and sincerely; and the essence of the Qur'an and Sunnah is placed in a very simple and appealing manner. This is the reason that the upright persons, beyond group ism and prejudices, have been adopting the correct Islamic path - the path of the Qur'an and Sunnah - under the influence of the basic facts and proofs produced herein. Kitab At- Tauhid is one of the best books on the subject of Tauhid(Monotheism) and ranks high in authenticity. Till date it has been published many times. It has been a means of guidance for millions of people throughout the world, by taking them out of the darkness of polytheism, heresy and error. If Allah wills, this book would also undoubtedly prove beneficial in all the times to come.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ruth Ginsburg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110948265
Size: 40.30 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2006-01-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF New Perspectives On Freud S Moses And Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism" presents some of the most important current scholarship on 'Moses and Monotheism'. The essays in this volume offer new perspectives on Freud's perception of Judaism, of collective trauma and collective repression, national violence, gender issues, hermeneutic enigmas, religious configurations, questions of representation, and constructions of truth, while exploring the relevance of 'Moses and Monotheism' in diverse fields - from Jewish Studies, Psychoanalysis, History, and Egyptology to Literature, Musicology, and Art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139488147
Size: 17.56 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-04-29
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF One God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult activity, including acclamations of 'one god' and the worship of theos hypsistos, the highest god, have sometimes been interpreted as evidence for pagan monotheism. This book discusses pagan monotheism in its philosophical and intellectual context, traces the evolution of new religious ideas in the time of the Roman empire, and evaluates the usefulness of the term 'monotheism' as a way of understanding these developments in later antiquity outside the context of Judaism and Christianity. In doing so, it establishes a framework for understanding the relationship between polytheistic and monotheistic religious cultures between the first and fourth centuries AD.

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Book Detail:
Author: Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620328895
Size: 73.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-07-29
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Jesus Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the first of a four-volume groundbreaking study of Christological origins. The fruit of twenty years research, Jesus Monotheism lays out a new paradigm that goes beyond the now widely held view that Paul and others held to an unprecedented "Christological monotheism." There was already, in Second Temple Judaism and in the Bible, a kind of "christological monotheism." But it is first with Jesus and his followers that a human figure is included in the identity of the one God as a fully divine person. Volume 1 lays out the arguments of an emerging consensus, championed by Larry Hurtado and Richard Bauckham, that from its Jewish beginnings the Christian community had a high Christology and worshipped Jesus as a divine figure. New data is adduced to support that case. But there are weaknesses in the emerging consensus. For example, it underplays the incarnation and does not convincingly explain what caused the earliest Christology. The recent study of Adam traditions, the findings of Enoch literature specialists, and of those who have explored a Jewish and Christian debt to Greco-Roman Ruler Cult traditions, all point towards a fresh approach to both the origins and shape of the earliest divine Christology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gilad Sharvit
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823280047
Size: 10.90 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018-06-05
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF Freud And Monotheism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious and mystical practices in “Obsessive Neurosis and Religious Practices,” and the exegesis of the origins of ethics in religion in Totem and Taboo, to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud’s masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely recognized. Freud and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research at the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, the contributors hail from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, Jewish studies and psychoanalysis. Jan Assmann and Richard Bernstein, whose books pioneered the earlier debate that initiated the Freud and Moses discourse, seize the opportunity to revisit and revise their groundbreaking work. Gabriele Schwab, Gilad Sharvit, Karen Feldman, and Yael Segalovitz engage with the idiosyncratic, eccentric and fertile nature of the book as a Spӓtstil, and explore radical interpretations of Freud’s literary practice, theory of religion and therapeutic practice. Ronald Hendel offers an alternative history for the Mosaic discourse within the biblical text, Catherine Malabou reconnects Freud’s theory of psychic phylogenesis in Moses and Monotheism to new findings in modern biology and Willi Goetschel relocates Freud in the tradition of works on history that begins with Heine, while Joel Whitebook offers important criticisms of Freud’s main argument about the advance in intellectuality that Freud attributes to Judaism.

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