Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net BAKER STUDIES IN BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY TELL EL AMARNA AND THE BIBLE by Charles F. Pfeiffer BAKER BOOK HOUSE Grand Rapids, Michigan Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-20014 Copyright, 1963, by Baker Book House Company ISBN: 0-8010-7002-3 _Fourth printing, April 1980_ PHOTOLITHOPRINTED BY CUSHING-MALLOY, INC. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1980 CONTENTS I. Discoveries at Amarna 9 II. The Restless Pharaoh 16 III. The Horizon of Aton 26 IV. Atonism 31 V. The Hymn to the Aton 38 VI. The Affairs of Empire 44 VII. Trade and Commerce During the Amarna Age 55 VIII. The Art of Amarna 58 IX. The End of an Era 62 X. Amarna and the Bible 67 Illustrations