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Tables of Contents for Akhenaten and the Religion of Light
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Translator's Note
xi
Map of Egypt
xiv
The Founder of a Religion Is Discovered
1
18
Champollion's Impressions
1
1
Lepsius Discovers the Founder
2
2
Vague Recollections in Antiquity
4
2
The Discovery Is Completed
6
2
The ``Heretic'' as Precursor of Modern Ideas
8
2
New Archaeological Finds
10
2
A New Religion Comes to Light
12
1
The First Biography and Its Influence
13
2
Critical Notes Are Sounded
15
2
Not in the Mists of Later Legends
17
2
The Religious Background
19
12
The New Solar Theology
19
1
His Father's Policies
20
6
The Royal Sed-Festival
24
2
The Festival of the Elder King
26
1
The Search for New Intermediaries
27
4
The First Steps
31
21
The Royal Titulary as Program for a Reign
31
3
Pharaob's Titulary
31
3
The Origin of a God
34
2
The Sanctuaries at Karnak
36
3
Once Again, the Sed-Festival
39
3
The Grotesque Pharaoh
42
4
No Fear of Emotion
46
2
Only One God
48
1
Akhenaten's ``Perestroika''
49
1
``The Beautiful Child of the Living Aten''
50
2
A New Religion
52
9
No Divine Revelation
52
2
God as Pharaoh
54
1
Pharaoh as God
55
2
The Female Element: Nefertiti
57
1
Possible Advisers
58
3
A City for a God
61
11
The Founding of Akhetaten
61
3
An Unusual Residence
64
3
Comfort Is Required
67
3
The City of Light
70
2
The Pure Teaching
72
15
New Sanctuaries for the Aten
72
2
A Holy Family
74
2
A Change of Name
76
8
The Great Hymn to the Aten
79
5
The Universal Deity: Light
84
3
The Question of Monotheism
87
8
Persecution of the Old Deities
87
1
Egypt as the ``Cradle of Monotheism''?
88
4
The Cosmic God of the Ramesside Period
92
1
The Monotheistic ``Cosmic Formula''
93
2
Belief in an Afterlife without a Hereafter
95
10
Osiris in the Shadow of the New Light
95
1
The Afterlife Becomes This-worldly
96
3
Living On in the Temple
99
1
External Forms
100
1
The King's Grace Replaces the Judgment of the Dead
101
4
The Inyotef Song
103
2
Dark Years
105
9
The Eventful Year 12
105
1
Kiya, the Beloved
106
2
The Dakhamanzu Affair
108
1
A ``Sunset'' Filled with Mystery
109
1
Mockery of the ``Heretic King''
110
2
The End Is Uncertain
112
2
The Successors
114
7
Many Women, but No Heir
114
1
Tutankhaten Makes His Appearance
115
1
Return to Amun and Ptah
116
3
The End of the Dynasty: Aya and Haremhab
119
2
Epilogue
121
6
Failure and Continuity
121
1
More Than an Episode
122
1
The Sun Endures
123
2
Roots of Fundamentalism
125
2
Afterword
127
2
Bibliography
129
12
Index
141