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Title: Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt by Dominic Montserrat ISBN: 0-415-30186-6 Publisher: Roultledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The origin of a self-portrait, the memory that were twisted.
Comment: For one Oriental who does not have tradition of Judaism-christianity-Islam,
this book is very interesting.I understood it a little why is Akhenaten exposed to praise and blame?
(Evaluation of this book seems to be exposed to praise and blame, too.)
Archeology needs material evidence and history needs evidence of a document .
There are few definite things when only fragmentary evidence is left or when we are going to reconstruct the times eliminated by a record once.
A guess and the supposition that carved a seal of the times of advocate bury a crack.
It be spread with journalism and the subculture that a sensational theory becomes popular.
Scholarship is not free from the political situation of the culture that oneself stands.
We distinguish between a certain matter and fiction and cannot press the reason to produce a mystery.
What is an image reflected there why such a fiction is made?
The contest of Akhenaten is the contest of the origin.
Curiously it seems to be the origin of Monotheism of Europe civilization and the origin of people plundered of. Akhenaten will become both an Aryan and a black.
This book is useful in order to ascertain dregs of Aten cults to loiter around still in the internet
and the mass-media.
I estimate this book to be a good guide as thinking about the history of Egypt understanding in Europe.
Rating: 5
Summary: a volume of perspectives...
Comment: Well worth a read - it's definitely the most entertaining and interesting book (that I've found) dealing with the plethora of contradictory views on the reign of Akhenaten.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrendously overpriced for a mere skimming of information
Comment: I couldn't agree more with the reviewer from Georgia who mentioned that this book is a great idea betrayed by an utter lack of thoroughness. Indeed, and without belaboring what has already been said in that review, this potentially valuable idea (for somebody else's book) is quite a frustrating read. And it does seem like more of an annotated bibliography than a real study of/comparison between competing notions of ideas about Akhenaten. While much of the information provided is interesting, there is basically no room for investigation, for follow-through, for earnest authorial postulation. Too, I found the book a lumpy piece of writing. For any American-educated scholar there seems to exist a wholly annoying and singular European mode of academc writing that would drive the MLA absolutely insane. Whereas parts of this book are utterly fascinating, such as the discussion of the aborted Akhenaten film script by the late Derek Jarman, such parts are touched upon ever so slightly . . . The idea of this book rates an A for me, but the combination of iffy execution and alarming brevity (and PRICE!) cause me to caution anyone, especially poor graduate students, from plunking down a veritable jackpot wad only to receive this disappointing scholarly effort.
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Title: Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet by C. N. Reeves, Nicholas Reeves ISBN: 0500051062 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Akhenaten and the Religion of Light by Erik Hornung, David Lorton ISBN: 0801487250 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Akhenaten: The Heretic King by Donald B. Redford ISBN: 0691002177 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt by William J. Murnane, Edmund S. Meltzer ISBN: 1555409660 Publisher: Scholars Press Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus by Ahmed Osman ISBN: 1591430046 Publisher: Bear & Company Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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