The Life and Times of Akhnaton
Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
The Life and Times of Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt
Author : Arthur E. P
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The anthology 'The Life and Times of Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt' offers a rich tapestry of scholarly perspectives on one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic rulers. Through a variety of literary styles ranging from analytical essays to reflective pieces, the collection encapsulates the complexity and diversity of Akhenaton's reign and religious reforms. The significance of this anthology lies not just in the broad spectrum of viewpoints it presents but also in its exploration of the pharaohs bid to dramatically transform Egyptian religious practice, a move that had profound socio-political ramifications. The works included delve deep into the Amarna Period, shedding light on both the historical events and the cultural shifts of the era, making it a standout compilation for scholars and enthusiasts alike. The contributing authors, Arthur E. P. and Brome Weigall, bring to this collection a wealth of expertise and diverse scholarly backgrounds, enriching the anthology with nuanced interpretations of Akhenatons radical monotheism and its aftermath. Their collective contributions align with and enrich contemporary understanding of ancient Egyptian history, art, and theology, offering insights into the periods intricate socio-political dynamics. As leading figures in Egyptology, their analyses are informed by a deep understanding of the cultural and historical context of Akhenatons reign, thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the subject. This anthology is recommended for anyone interested in exploring the multifaceted narrative of Akhenaton's Egypt. The diverse array of essays invites readers on a scholarly journey through one of historys most fascinating epochs, offering a unique opportunity to engage with the varied interpretations and discussions encapsulated within. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of ancient history and Egyptology, The Life and Times of Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt presents an invaluable resource, fostering a deeper appreciation and understanding of the complexities surrounding this ancient figure and the era he defined.
Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet
Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0500774595
Book Description
Nicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.
Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism
Author : James K. Hoffmeier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199792143
Book Description
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.
Akhenaten
Author : Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134690347
Book Description
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.
Moses and Akhenaten
Author : Ahmed Osman
Publisher : Bear
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781591430049
Book Description
A reinterpretation of biblical and Egyptian history that shows Moses and the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be one and the same. • Provides dramatic evidence from both archaeological and documentary sources. • A radical challenge to long-established beliefs on the origin of Semitic religion. During his reign, the Pharaoh Akhenaten was able to abolish the complex pantheon of the ancient Egyptian religion and replace it with a single god, the Aten, who had no image or form. Seizing on the striking similarities between the religious vision of this “heretic” pharaoh and the teachings of Moses, Sigmund Freud was the first to argue that Moses was in fact an Egyptian. Now Ahmed Osman, using recent archaeological discoveries and historical documents, contends that Akhenaten and Moses were one and the same man. In a stunning retelling of the Exodus story, Osman details the events of Moses/Akhenaten's life: how he was brought up by Israelite relatives, ruled Egypt for seventeen years, angered many of his subjects by replacing the traditional Egyptian pantheon with worship of the Aten, and was forced to abdicate the throne. Retreating to the Sinai with his Egyptian and Israelite supporters, he died out of the sight of his followers, presumably at the hands of Seti I, after an unsuccessful attempt to regain his throne. Osman reveals the Egyptian components in the monotheism preached by Moses as well as his use of Egyptian royal ritual and Egyptian religious expression. He shows that even the Ten Commandments betray the direct influence of Spell 125 in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Moses and Akhenaten provides a radical challenge to long-standing beliefs concerning the origin of Semitic religion and the puzzle of Akhenaten's deviation from ancient Egyptian tradition. In fact, if Osman's contentions are correct, many major Old Testament figures would be of Egyptian origin.
Akhnaton
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057370628X
Book Description
An enlightened pharaoh falls foul of his conservative court when he attempts to unite the polytheist Egyptians under one god – a course of action that forces factions of both the army and priesthood to turn against him. Undeterred, Akhnaton’s vision of a kingdom where people dwell in peace, truth, love and beauty will ultimately destroy him and all those he holds dear. Regarded as one of her most extraordinary plays, this epic historical drama is unlike anything you have read of Christie’s before.
The Egyptian
Author : Mika Waltari
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1774642972
Book Description
First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
Akhenaten
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307481263
Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death--including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti--in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.
Moses and Monotheism
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 8898301790
Book Description
The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.
