Akhenaten and the Religion of Light
Contributors: David Lorton (Translator)
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780801436581
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Ancient Egyptian Religion; Prehistory; General; Religion; History - General History; King of Egypt; History: World; Ancient Egypt; History; Ancient - Egypt; Comparative Religion; Sun worship; Akhenaton,; Egypt
First sentence: During his first and only trip to Egypt, Jean-François Champollion at first planned on a very brief stay in Middle Egypt, the region between the two great ancient centers of Memphis and Thebes.
Description: "Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C.E. 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."--BOOK JACKET.