Quote:The priests of Aten would have become pariahs practically overnight in Egypt upon the death of Akhenaten.
Occam's razor, Pap. Easier to kill them or absorb them back into the Amun cult from whence they came. But even that is not the biggest problem with the idea. Akhenaten died c 1335 BC. We see no evidence of monotheism anywhere in the ANE until the Persian period begins in 539 with Cyrus' coup de main on Babylon. That is nearly 800 years. Where were they for all that time?
Quote:They left a land of no volcanos and went to a land of volcanos and shit themselves.
Except, (again) there are no volcanoes in Palestine.