The Heresy of Akhenaten: The Creation and Doctrine of the First Monotheism

The Heresy of Akhenaten: The Creation and Doctrine of the First Monotheism By Peter C. Kyle April 17, 2000 The history of the Pharaohs of Egypt has been but an endless line of king lists with few pharaohs of note and even fewer with any individual personality, as far as we can glean from the texts, and with few major societal changes. Akhenaten, of the XVIII Dynasty, stands out as one of the rare pharaohs in Egyptian …

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