"Just imagine, though, what would have happened if his new religion had caught on: perhaps today we would mention Atenism in the same breath as other great mono

"Just imagine, though, what would have happened if his new religion had caught on: perhaps today we would mention Atenism in the same breath as other great monotheistic faiths such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam." There are theories that Akhenaten was the inspiration for Jewish monotheism. Israelite slaves in Egypt picked up the new idea, then migrated under Moses to the Promised Land, while reinterpreting or suppressing their previous polytheistic Abrahamic origins. For example, the Ten Commandments from that migration are just a few trivial and obvious rules for communal life, together with fanatical paranoid proscriptions about worshipping other Gods. Why the stress on the one God if it was a long established fact of life? Sounds much more like enforcement of the new exclusive monotheistic doctrine.