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• catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Echnaton. English".
• catalog contributor b11333102.
• catalog coverage "Egypt Religion.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-140) and index.".
• catalog description "The Founder of a Religion Is Discovered -- Champollion's Impressions -- Lepsius Discovers the Founder -- Vague Recollections in Antiquity -- The Discovery Is Completed -- The "Heretic" as Precursor of Modern Ideas -- New Archaeological Finds -- A New Religion Comes to Light -- The First Biography and Its Influence -- Critical Notes Are Sounded -- Not in the Mists of Later Legends -- The Religious Background -- The New Solar Theology -- His Father's Policies -- The Royal Sed-Festival -- The Festival of the Elder King -- The Search for New Intermediaries -- The First Steps -- The Royal Titulary as Program for a Reign -- Pharaoh's Titulary -- The Origin of a God -- The Sanctuaries at Karnak -- Once Again, the Sed-Festival -- The Grotesque Pharaoh -- No Fear of Emotion -- Only One God -- Akhenaten's "Perestroika" -- "The Beautiful Child of the Living Aten" -- A New Religion -- No Divine Revelation -- God as Pharaoh -- Pharaoh as God -- The Female Element: Nefertiti -- Possible Advisers -- A City for a God -- The Founding of Akhetaten -- An Unusual Residence -- Comfort Is Required -- The City of Light -- The Pure Teaching -- New Sanctuaries for the Aten -- A Holy Family -- A Change of Name -- The Great Hymn to the Aten -- The Universal Deity: Light -- The Question of Monotheism -- Persecution of the Old Deities -- Egypt as the "Cradle of Monotheism"? -- The Cosmic God of the Ramesside Period -- The Monotheistic "Cosmic Formula" -- Belief in an Afterlife without a Hereafter -- Osiris in the Shadow of the New Light.".
• catalog extent "xii, 146 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Akhenaten and the religion of light.".
• catalog identifier "0801436583".
• catalog isFormatOf "Akhenaten and the religion of light.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
• catalog relation "Akhenaten and the religion of light.".
• catalog spatial "Egypt Religion.".
• catalog spatial "Egypt.".
• catalog subject "299/.31 21".
• catalog subject "Akhenaton, King of Egypt Religion.".
• catalog subject "Akhenaton, King of Egypt.".
• catalog subject "BL2443 .H6613 1999".
• catalog subject "Sun worship Egypt.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Founder of a Religion Is Discovered -- Champollion's Impressions -- Lepsius Discovers the Founder -- Vague Recollections in Antiquity -- The Discovery Is Completed -- The "Heretic" as Precursor of Modern Ideas -- New Archaeological Finds -- A New Religion Comes to Light -- The First Biography and Its Influence -- Critical Notes Are Sounded -- Not in the Mists of Later Legends -- The Religious Background -- The New Solar Theology -- His Father's Policies -- The Royal Sed-Festival -- The Festival of the Elder King -- The Search for New Intermediaries -- The First Steps -- The Royal Titulary as Program for a Reign -- Pharaoh's Titulary -- The Origin of a God -- The Sanctuaries at Karnak -- Once Again, the Sed-Festival -- The Grotesque Pharaoh -- No Fear of Emotion -- Only One God -- Akhenaten's "Perestroika" -- "The Beautiful Child of the Living Aten" -- A New Religion -- No Divine Revelation -- God as Pharaoh -- Pharaoh as God -- The Female Element: Nefertiti -- Possible Advisers -- A City for a God -- The Founding of Akhetaten -- An Unusual Residence -- Comfort Is Required -- The City of Light -- The Pure Teaching -- New Sanctuaries for the Aten -- A Holy Family -- A Change of Name -- The Great Hymn to the Aten -- The Universal Deity: Light -- The Question of Monotheism -- Persecution of the Old Deities -- Egypt as the "Cradle of Monotheism"? -- The Cosmic God of the Ramesside Period -- The Monotheistic "Cosmic Formula" -- Belief in an Afterlife without a Hereafter -- Osiris in the Shadow of the New Light.".
• catalog title "Akhenaten and the religion of light / Erik Hornung ; translated from the German by David Lorton.".
• catalog title "Echnaton. English".
• catalog type "text".