sources: SRC_MURNANE_AMARNA

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SRC_MURNANE_AMARNA William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1995)   primary text Critical edition and translation of inscriptions from the Amarna Period (reign of Akhenaten, c. 1353-1336 BCE), including the Great Hymn to the Aten (EA 25), the Shorter Hymn to the Aten, boundary stelae proclamations, and administrative texts from Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna). The Great Hymn is the primary theological statement on Aten as sole creator and sustainer of all life; it is cited in scholarly literature as one of the earliest surviving expressions of monotheistic or henotheistic theology. Primary source for all Aten theological claims.

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