Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Empire: World History · 368. Ancient Egypt: The Origin of Abrahamic Religions? (Ep 7) · 14 Jun 2026
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So I think there's all sorts of, which is very exciting, by the way, about Virginia Wolfe being your great, great aunt.
I think there's all sorts of reasons why this is a very important work for Freud.
But it also plays into a lot of what he's interested in intellectually and in terms of his understanding of human psychology in the sense that for him, Akhenaten's monotheism, if that's what we're to call it, it's not a label I'm particularly comfortable with, but his kind of version of one God theology, one God religion is...
for Freud, I think, one of those great, great forces.
And it's a force that for him is repressed and denied and eradicated, but then suddenly reemerges much later for some scholars, but for Freud, reemerges at the time of Moses, who he dates to around the same time as Akhenaten.
And it's Moses that passes this monotheism on to the Israelites.
I find it very hard to, as an academic, to say this is what he got right or this is what stands up.
I think he's on the right trail to say that there is a certain kind of, that one God religion, that it does pop up, it re-emerges because it's a very powerful notion.
It's a very powerful idea.
And because it's so contrary, it's so different in some ways to the norm, to the cultural norm.
So in the ancient world, across ancient Southwest Asia, North Africa, the Mediterranean, there's
It's a very controversial idea, one God theology in this context.
And so I think the idea that somehow these sorts of things can come back with a force, that they can't be, that these things don't just disappear.
You can't just get rid of, like you can't get rid of the whole notion of polytheism without it re-emerging or kind of adapting later on.
And so too with the notion of one God religion.
You can't just get rid of that idea.
It does come up later on.
Now, whether there's a direct DNA link, if you like, between Akhenaten.
If there's a direct link between Akhenaten's theology and his religious preferences and those that we find in the Hebrew Bible and in ancient Judaism, Christianity, etc.
No, there's no direct link, I would go as far as to say that.
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