violent monotheistic religion with ancient polytheism which, by its capacity for ‘translation’ (i.e. of the pantheons), was intrinsically hospitable to otherness: ‘Whereas Moses the Hebrew is the personification of confrontation and antagonism … Moses the Egyptian bridges this opposition … While the Biblical Moses personifies the Mosaic distinction, Moses the Egyptian embodies its mediation.’5 In this perspective, modern pluralism finds ancient Egyptian polytheism congenial company, and biblical