Tell El Amarna and the Bible

About this eBook

Author

Pfeiffer, Charles F., 1919-1976

Title

Tell el Amarna and the Bible

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Tell el-Amarna (Egypt)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58065

Release Date

October 10, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TELL EL AMARNA AND THE BIBLE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.Illustrations
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.I DISCOVERIES AT AMARNA — The Beginnings — The Amarna Tablets — Excavations at Amarna
6. 6.II THE RESTLESS PHARAOH — The New Kingdom — Young Amenhotep IV — The Break with Amon — The New Capital — The End of an Era
7. 7.III THE HORIZON OF ATON — The Boundaries of Akhetaton — The Move to the New Capital — The Plan of the City — The Rock Tombs
8. 8.IV ATONISM — Ancient Egyptian Religion — Aton Worship — The Triumph of Aton — Moses and Aton — The Death of Aton
9. 9.V THE HYMN TO THE ATON — The Splendor and Power of Aton — Nighttime — Daytime — The Creation: Man — The Creation: Animal Life — Aton’s Glory in Creation — Aton Waters the Earth — Aton: Lord of the Seasons — Aton’s Providence
10. 10.VI THE AFFAIRS OF EMPIRE — The Kings of Mitanni — Emerging Assyria — The Hittite Challenge — Rib-Addi of Byblos — Lab‘ayu of Shechem — Abdi-Khepa of Jerusalem — Amarna Age Palestine — The ‘Apiru
11. 11.VII TRADE AND COMMERCE DURING THE AMARNA AGE — Minoan Crete — The Phoenicians
12. 12.VIII THE ART OF AMARNA — Sunken Relief — Realism — Caricature — Transitional Art Forms — The Development of Amarna Art
13. 13.IX THE END OF AN ERA — Smenkhkare — Tutankhaton-Tutankhamon — Eye and Horemhab
14. 14.X AMARNA AND THE BIBLE — Written Records — Canaanite Glosses — Amarna Age Palestine — Affairs of Government
15. 15.BIBLIOGRAPHY — Archaeology — History — Art and Tomb Inscriptions — Religion — The Amarna Tablets — Texts — Transcription and Translation — Studies
16. 16.FOOTNOTES
17. 17.INDEX
18. 18.Baker Studies in Biblical Archaeology
19. 19.Transcriber’s Notes

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