368. Ancient Egypt: The Origin of Abrahamic Religions? (Ep 7)

On his deathbed in 1938, Sigmund Freud wrote his final, and in many ways, his most original work. But the most famous psychologist in history wasn't writing about the unconscious mind or the ego. He was writing about the Egyptian pharaoh Agnaton. And he was asking whether Aknaten's radical religious beliefs laid the seeds from which Judaism, Islam, and Christianity grew. In this episode, we're going to be exploring that.

And we're welcoming to the studio. I'm afraid it's just me today, no, no uh Anita, she's busy, but It gets me all the more time with one of my favourite authors who I have completely loved the work of, Francesco Stavracapoullo. Francesco, welcome to the to the podcast. Thank you.

So everyone, put your seatbelts on because what you're going to get is certainly very different from what I understood to be the origins of monotheism, which is what we're looking at today. We're asking two questions in a sense. What was the beginnings of monotheism? Was uh Aknaten's uh Arton faith a form of monotheism or not? We we looked a bit at that with Lloyd Llewellyn Jones, but we're going to go now forward with Francesca and ask a second question.

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