What do you know about Aten/Aton and it's influences across history and today?
>>18772845That by showing we still have records of a heretical Pharaoh being scrubbed but none of biblical plagues, moses or an exodus.
>>18772854>an exodus.There's much evidence for Asiatic tribes going in and out of Egypt during the time of the Exodus. All it takes is one of them.
>>18772863Yes but Jews, Christians, and Muslims didn’t like the evidence we found, so now they try to pretend they’re completely unrelated to the Exodus. Just look up>the HyksosThey were a semitic peoples from the Levant who conquered Egypt in the 17th century BC and ruled over as their 15th dynasty before eventually getting expelled around 1550 BC. We have a lot of reasons to believe that the Exodus is based on a cultural memory of the Hyksos’ expulsion (in-reverse) and that the Hyksos were one of the groups who contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Israelites, hell there was even a Hyksos pharaoh named Yaqub who is likely the historical basis for Jacob. The Greco-Egyptian historian Manetho actually recorded all this in his now-lost Aegyptiaca and even explicitly equated the Hyksos with the biblical Israelites. While his account was distorted to a degree, it’s still far more accurate to history than the Biblical account.So in short, the Jews’ ancestors were expelled oligarchs rather than escaped slaves. But it’s not just the Hyksos, the Jews are also descended from>the Shasu of YahwehThey were a nomadic tribe from Midian who apparently worshiped Yahweh, though there was also another tribe of Shasu whose chief god Reben might have later morphed into the biblical Reuben. Around the 12th century BC, a Shasu warlord named Irsu (likely the historical basis for Moses) invaded Egypt, plundered its temples, and “treated the gods as men” (i.e. forbidding their worship). Eventually the Shasu were expelled to the Levant and there they imported the worship of Yahweh and just like the Hyksos centuries earlier, they also likely contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Israelites. Given that they were described as treating the Egyptian gods “like men,” it’s possible that they developed the idea that “other gods = bad.” (Cont)
>>18772876>>18772863>Given that they were described as treating the Egyptian gods “like men,” it’s possible they developed the idea that “other gods = bad.”However, this idea might have also been influenced by>AtenismAround the 14th century, pharaoh Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten and instituted an early form of monotheism centered around Aten in an attempt to centralize power and strip traditional priesthoods of their influence. His reforms were undone immediately after his death, but we have reasons to believe that Atenist priests fled to the Levant and contributed to the development of Jewish monotheism given how damn similar Psalm 104 is to the Great Hymn to Aten. Sigmund Freud actually wrote a book on that theory and while his exact arguments were flawed, the general idea still holds water.
>>18772863Hyksos weren't the biblical israelites
