Akhenaten shattered centuries of Egyptian tradition by abandoning its many gods for Aten, the sun disk. His radical faith still sparks debate—was it the world’s first monotheism?

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) In the wake of Said’s landmark work, Orientalism (Said 1979), scholars have been widely concerned with countering the ...