William Durand-Poole

Akhenaten sees darkness as an absence of his God.

Are we bringing Persia into this?

If we want to do this, yes, we can, because...

My belief is that much of the Hebrew Bible, as it stands, is written in the Persian period, or at least edited in the Persian period.

So Persian religion, including this polarity of dark and light, truth and the lie, gets filtered into all of this.

So while we can say, oh, look, there are Bronze Age elements here in the Psalms, most of them had their redaction in the Persian period.

And that makes a big difference.

We cannot just read the Hebrew Bible as, you know, some old Bronze Age mythology all going on, because actually it's being filtered over centuries, in fact.

Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely.

So it's never a question of saying, you know, A plus B equals C. There's also always something that's going to get in the way of that.

Yeah, I'm happy to be on Team Anita.

It collapses almost immediately.

So much has been channeled through him, hasn't it?

You know, without him, like the MAGA movement, without the leader, the charismatic leader, we hope things will just disappear, you know, as though they never were.

And that's the interesting thing.

They didn't want to just say, we've got through this blip.

Later Egyptians thought

erased him from history, completely and utterly.

So if you look at king lists, and the Egyptians loved their lists of monarchs, one at Abydos, for instance, showing Seti I and his son and heir, Ramesses II, in front of all the katushas of the pharaohs of Egypt.