(March 6, 2019 at 11:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Monolatry isn't the inheritance of a single person or ideological system.
Just so.
Neither does correlation prove causation. Studies of mythology often show similarities of figures and of themes. This could simply be because of the way human beings think. Or perhaps verification of Jungian archetypes.
The notion of a link between Akhenaten and Moses/monotheism has been around for decades. It is not part of mainstream thought on the subject.
Some years ago, there was a crackpot fringe book and I think a documentary making claims of causation between; Mithras and Jesus, and Isis and the virgin Mary., among other things, which I forget. The claims of similarities were factually incorrect, and the conclusions unsupported by the evidence.
Pretty sure there is still a LOT of information online about the issues raised.
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Carl Jung understood archetypes as universal, archaic patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct.[1] They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world.[2] They are autonomous and hidden forms which are transformed once they enter consciousness and are given particular expression by individuals and their cultures. In Jungian psychology, archetypes are highly developed elements of the collective unconscious. The existence of archetypes can only be deduced indirectly by using story, art, myths, religions, or dreams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
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For study in the broad area of Hebrew monotheism and the Exodus, I recommend the book cited below:
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, a book published in 2001, discusses the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins and content of the Hebrew Bible. The authors are Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, an archaeologist, historian and contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed
