Akhenaten

April 11, 2012

O sole god, like whom there is no other...'

In the year 1380 BCE, in ancient Egypt, a king wrote a beautiful poem for the One. Probably this is the most ancient voice of praise of a monotheist, 700 years before Isaiah. But what experts more often write about is that he was a pharoah who changed the religion of his ancestors into a faith that became more like Abrahamic religions.

Akhenaten, the pharaoh, called that sole god Aten, the name of an olde

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