Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

I'll have to have a look at these. The way I see it is this:
1.Even during Akhenaten's reign, his "special" views don't seem to have been 
well know in Canaan. As far as I remember (please correct me if I'm wrong 
here), the Canaanite vassals refer to Akhenaten as "the Sun", "the Bull" and 
Horus - no references to Aten. 
2. Very soon after the death of Akhenaten and his immediate successors, the 
"Amarna revolution" was pretty much erased from Egyptian history, including 
the abandonment of the capital at El-Amarna itself. Manetho, for instance, 
does not mention the whole episode and its re-discovery in the late 19th 
century was quite a surprise. So the possibility of "Atenism" having any real 
influence on much later Judahite/Israelite monotheism is very slight. 
Besides, it seems that "Atenism" was quite far from real monotheism.

Yigal
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Uri Hurwitz 
  To: Yigal Levin ; b-hebrew 
  Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Akhenaten and Hebrew religion


    For an opposing position one may consult J.C. De Moor  The Rise of 
Yahwism,  and especially the aptly titled chapter  3.: " The Crisis of 
Polytheism";
     or  W. Propp's article in Ugarit Forschung 31;
     or,briefly, in Kitchen's recent On The Reliability of the OT, pp. 
330-332.
    I think their views deserve serious consideration and, in fact a 
re-examination of the subject which is exactly what Propp has done in his 
paper (shades of Kaufmann and Albright and even Freud!)

    Uri
     

  Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

    ....the
    question is, what influence did the short lived "Amarna Revolution" have 
on
    the eventual development of monotheism in Israel/Judah. My position would
    be - none.

    Yigal

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