Pillar of Fire
A historical fantasy recreates life in ancient Egypt as seen by a slave to the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who banished worship of all the gods but one, led his tribe in the wilderness, and may have been the true Moses
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The Pharaoh Akhenaten is one of the most compelling and mysterious figures of ancient Egyptian history, and in this epic novel author Judith Tarr brings his troubled reign to life.Akhenaten was a man inspired and possessed by his god, the Aten. In the name of the Aten, he turned his back on the Gods of Egypt and closed the temples.Egypt was outraged, and though Akhenaten had time only for his God, his daughters, and his mother, Queen Tiye, he strove mightily to rule the Kingdom and avert disaster.But Pillar of Fire is far more than the story of Akhenaten, for it was during his reign that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt, a clan of the desert Habiru who had settled there. Judith Tarr daringly speculates that the Egyptian royal family was related to the descendants of Joseph and that Moses was indeed a prince of Egypt.
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