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The History of Egypt Podcast

123: Akhenaten vs Amurru (Part 1) Rogue Nation

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Abdi-Ashirta and the Rise of Amurru. In the later years of Amunhotep III (father of Akhenaten) and the early years of Akhenaten himself, events in the north began to trouble the royal court. The Egyptian empire, long established in Canaan and Syria, was under threat. Great powers were rising, and regional vassals were starting to fight amongst themselves. Into this milieu, a man named Abdi-Ashirta began to make waves... Episode date c.1365-1360 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music by Derek and Brandon Fiechter. Intro music by Keith Zizza. Select Bibliography: Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion. Princeton University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77519. Campbell, Edward F. ‘The Amarna Letters and the Amarna Period’. The Biblical Archaeologist 23, no. 1 (1 February 1960): 2–22. Cohen, Raymond, and Raymond Westbrook, eds. Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Dalley, Stephanie. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Revised ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Goren, Yuval, Israel Finkelstein, and Nadav Naʾaman. ‘The Expansion of the Kingdom of Amurru According to the Petrographic Investigation of the Amarna Tablets’. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 329 (2003): 1–11. Izre’el, Shlomo, and Itamar Singer. Amurru Akkadian: A Linguistic Study. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. James, Alan. ‘Egypt and Her Vassals: The Geopolitical Dimension’. In Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations, 112–24. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Moran, William L. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Moran, William L., and ו”ל מוראן. ‘מותו של עבד-אשרת / The Death of Abdi-Ashirta’. Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies / ארץ–ישראל: מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה ט (1969): 94–99. Morris, Ellen Fowles. The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Murnane, William J. Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Murnane, William J. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1985. Mynářová, Jana. ‘Expressions of Dates and Time in the Amarna Letters’. Ägypten Und Levante / Egypt and the Levant 21 (2011): 123–28. Mynářová, Jana. Language of Amarna – Language of Diplomacy: Perspectives on the Amarna Letters. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2007. Na’aman, Nadav. ‘David’s Sojourn in Keilah in Light of the Amarna Letters’. Vetus Testamentum 60, no. 1 (2010): 87–97. Parzen, Rabbi Herbert. ‘The Problem of the Ibrim (“Hebrews”) in the Bible’. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 49, no. 3 (1933): 254–61. Pryke, Louise M. ‘The Many Complaints to Pharaoh of Rib-Addi of Byblos’. Journal of the American Oriental Society 131, no. 3 (2011): 411–22. Singer, Itamar. ‘The “Land of Amurru” and the “Lands of Amurru” in the Šaušgamuwa Treaty’. Iraq 53 (1991): 69–74. Stieglitz, Robert R. ‘The City of Amurru’. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 50, no. 1 (1991): 45–48. Van de Mieroop, Marc. A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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relationship between the transatlantic cultural cousins. Hi there,

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listeners, Dominic here.

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The events that this episode describes take place over an uncertain period of time at an uncertain date.

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It is likely that they transpired late in the reign of Ahmon Hodesk the third,

0:59.0

father of Akinaten and majestic but Aloof ruler of Egypt.

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However, it is also possible that they occurred or transitioned into the early years of

1:11.0

Arkenaten himself. So the date is unclear. Furthermore, the countries and people

1:17.8

that I describe here connect heavily with events during Arkanaten's second decade in power.

1:25.0

So after going back and forth on whether to write this episode during the last years of

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Armun Hoteb the third or the reign of Arkanaten, I chose the latter.

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That way the events of this episode will have a tangible and easy to understand effect on the

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next episode.

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But yeah, just bear in mind that historically the story I'm

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about to tell is a little bit unclear. Hello everyone and welcome back to the History of Egypt Podcast,

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