Akhenaten the heretic king
A portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various writers have depicted this strange ruler of the fourteenth century B.C. as a disguised woman or a eunuch, a mentor of Moses, or a forerunner of Christ. Drawing on information from his...
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | English |
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Princeton, N.J.
Princeton Univ. Pr.
1987
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Ausgabe: | 1. paperback print. |
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Zusammenfassung: | A portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various writers have depicted this strange ruler of the fourteenth century B.C. as a disguised woman or a eunuch, a mentor of Moses, or a forerunner of Christ. Drawing on information from his own excavations, the Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project describes the kingly heretic against the background of imperial Egypt.--From publisher description. |
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Beschreibung: | XXXVI, 255 S. Ill., Kt. |
ISBN: | 0691035679 0691002177 |