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Pillar Of Fire (novel)
''Pillar of Fire'' is a 1995 historical fantasy novel by Judith Tarr. It deals with the reigns of Egyptian pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun and the Exodus from the perspective of a Hittite slave girl of Ankhesenpaaten. It draws heavily on Ahmed Osman's suggestion that Moses and Akhenaten were the same person. The idea of Akhenaten as the pioneer of a monotheistic religion that later became Judaism has been considered by various scholars starting with Sigmund Freud's views in '' Moses and Monotheism''.Freud, S. (1939). Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays.Montserrat, (2000) Tarr comments in the endnotes that she was surprised at how little she had to tweak historical fact to write the story. The audiobook version, published in 1998, ran for approximately 22 hours and was read by Anna Fields. Synopsis Set in ancient Egypt the narrative is based on the notion that Moses and the Pharaoh Akhenaten were one and the same. Narrated in the third person from the viewpoint of a Hittit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Tarr
Judith Tarr (born January 30, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Life Tarr was born in Augusta, Maine on January 30, 1955. She is the daughter of Earle A. Tarr, Jr. (a waterworks manager and salesman of real estate), and Regina (a teacher)."Tarr, Judith" in Stableford, Brian M. ''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature''.Lanham (Md.) : Scarecrow Press, 2009. (p. 397)Sawyer, Andy. "Tarr, Judith", in the ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', ed. David Pringle. London, St. James Press, 1996, ,(pp. 551-2). She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She taught Latin at Wesleyan University from 1990 to 1993. She breeds Lipizzan horses at ''Dancing Horse Farm'', her home in Vail, Arizona. The romantic fantasies that she writes under the name ''Caitlin Brennan'' feature "dancing horses" modeled on those that she ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |