An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
27. Tutankhamun
March 01, 2021
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Sigmund Freud
Context:
Discussed as Freud's last book, in which he theorizes about the connection between Akhenaten and Moses, suggesting Moses was originally an Egyptian Atonist priest who led the Hebrews out of Egypt
Author: Thomas Mann
Context:
Mentioned as an example of the intellectual and cultural afterlife of the Akhenaten story, alongside Philip Glass's opera about Akhenaten
Author: Jan Assmann
Context:
Described as a 'fantastic book' by the German Egyptologist from Heidelberg, which examines how Freud interpreted the Akhenaten-Moses connection and traces it back to the Egyptian period, including stories from the Ptolemaic period