Do you think the Jewish 'one god' religious basis was derived from the 'one god' of Akhenaten?
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Wulfweard
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No...the Jewish people didn't have a religion at the time and they were presented with monotheism, Akhenaten was making a change from the polytheistic egypt he was accustomed...going from no god to the God, is different than going from many gods to a god.
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Yes. It's possible and according to Bernard Lewis this is so. However, the Jews appear to have been strongly influenced by the Zoroastrian, Cyrus the Great so their monotheism could have come from zoroastrianism.
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