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Amenhotep IV

The idea of Akhenaten as the pioneer of a monotheistic religion that later became Judaism has been considered by various scholars.[35][36][37][38][39][40] One of the first to mention this was Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in his book Moses and Monotheism.[41] Freud argued that Moses had been an Atenist priest forced to leave Egypt with his followers after Akhenaten's death. Freud argued that Akhenaton was striving to promote monotheism, something that the biblical Moses was able to achieve

Akhenaten appears in history almost two-centuries prior to the first archaeological and written evidence for Judaism and Israelite culture is found in the Levant.

 There are strong similarities between Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten and the Biblical Psalm 104,