Like a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the show can also be taken as refutation of the existence of a single god, or of any god at all.
A new book"Moses the Egyptian," by Jan Assmann--finds in the Pharaoh Akhenaton's attempts to banish multiple dieties in favor of a single god the origins of Jewish monotheism..
A new book"Moses the Egyptian," by Jan Assmann--finds in the Pharaoh Akhenaton's attempts to banish multiple dieties in favor of a single god the origins of Jewish monotheism.
"I say to myself that the fact of believing in a single god is the behaviour of a cretin, I can't find another word.
Withdrawing from the traditional capitals of Thebes and Memphis, Ikhnaton (also known as Akhenaten) and his wife Nefertiti abandoned multiple deities for a single god (Aton, the disc of the sun), created a new capital at Ikhtaton (now Amarna) and saw their planned city of magnificent temples and brightly decorated palaces flourish.
Hinduism, by contrast, typically recognizes many gods and goddesses, although some varieties of Hinduism, which count these many deities as aspects of a single God, may be monotheistic.
We both believe, along with the Jews, in the idea of a single God.
In a sense, then, anti-Semitic ideology developed in an attempt to reconcile that supposed impossibility with the conflicting demand that Christians should treat all men as children of a single God.
They were part of the same family, and also part of an extraordinary attempt on the part of Pharaoh Akhenaten — Nefertiti's husband and almost certainly Tutankhamun's father — to turn Egypt into a monotheocracy, built around the worship of a single God, Aten, the sun.
Or it might be the product of a single god, but a god who now lets it run on its own.
