Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Biblia.com)

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In the middle of the fourteenth century B.C.E., Egypt’s polytheistic religion was suddenly attacked by its most traditional upholder, the pharaoh. The short-lived revolution that followed continues to be as disturbing and enigmatic as the “heretic king,” Akhenaten, who set it in motion. Was Akhenaten the first monotheist, as he is widely reputed to be, or was he an opportunist, possibly even an...

the balance of this “first internationalism,” Assyria and Hatti, were not yet recovered from earlier setbacks. Other secondary and lesser powers were Alashiya (possibly Cyprus) and perhaps even the rulers of Troy and Mycenaean Greece. The ideological foundation of the pharaoh’s rule in Egypt was his relationship with the god of the dynastys original homeland at Thebes. Amun, “the Hidden One,” had risen to national prominence with the Theban dynasts who had reunified Egypt at the end of the First

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