Name: Akhenaten and the Religion of Light (en Inglés)
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Author: Hornung, Erik ; Lorton, David
ISBN: 9780801436581

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Akhenaten and the Religion of Light (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Erik Hornung

Traducido por

David Lorton

Editorial

Cornell University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.3 x 14.6 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9780801436581

Categorías

C. 2686-c. 323 a. e. c. (período del antiguo egipto)
Historia antigua
Historia de oriente próximo
Historia de la religión
Religiones y mitologías antiguas

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light (en Inglés)

Erik Hornung (Autor) · David Lorton (Traducido por) · Cornell University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Akhenaten and the Religion of Light (en Inglés)"

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.Hornung begins with a discussion of the nineteenth-century scholars who laid the foundation for our knowledge of Akhenaten's period and extends to the most recent archaeological finds. He emphasizes that Akhenaten's monotheistic theology represented the first attempt in history to explain the entire natural and human world on the basis of a single principle. "Akhenaten made light the absolute reference point," Hornung writes, "and it is astonishing how clearly and consistently he pursued this concept." Hornung also addresses such topics as the origins of the new religion; pro-found changes in beliefs regarding the afterlife; and the new Egyptian capital at Akhetaten which was devoted to the service of Aten, his prophet Akhenaten, and the latter's family.