Download or read book Akhenaten, the Heretic King written by Donald B. Redford and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various writers have depicted this strange ruler of the fourteenth century B.C. as a disguised woman or a eunuch, a mentor of Moses, or a forerunner of Christ. Drawing on information from his own excavations, the Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project describes the kingly heretic against the background of imperial Egypt.--From publisher description.