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Author Redford, Donald B.

Title Akhenaten, the heretic king / Donald B. Redford.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1987], c1984.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  932.014 Ak46Br 1987    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxvi, 255 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note "First Princeton paperback printing"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Akhenaton, King of Egypt.
Egypt -- History -- Eighteenth dynasty, approximately 1570-1320 B.C.
Pharaohs -- Egypt -- Biography.
ISBN 0691002177 (pbk.) : $14.50
9780691002170 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 064062651
AU@ 000009425739

 
    
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