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Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

Paperback • 2001 • English

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

By Erik Hornung

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Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. Called the "religious revolutionary, " he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with Egypt's traditional polytheism and focused its worship on a single deity, the sun god Aten. Erik Hornung, one of the world's preeminent Egyptologists, here offers a concise and accessible account of Akhenaten and his religion of light. Hornung begins w...Show more

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ISBN

9780801487255

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

Format

Paperback

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