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Since the Re-Herakhte character won the fight and destroyed the enemy, the context
suggests that the story must have been a disguised account of events during the reign
of pharaoh Akhenaten.
This pharaoh was a rabid monotheist who worshipped Re-Herakhte in the form
of a solar disk known as the Aten. While on the throne, he launched a major campaign
to obliterate all public references to the god Amen, literally sending out armies of
workers to chisel Amen’s name out of stone monuments and close Amen’s temples, the
equivalent of destroying that god’s house of worship. Shortly after Akhenaten’s death
the Amen cult re-established its authority, but the Egyptians continued to recognize
Re-Herakhte as head of the pantheon.
The conflict between the monotheistic sun-worshipping Akhenaten and the
Amen worshippers would have been well-known to the Israelites, who were in Egypt
during Akhenaten’s reign. The victory of the monotheistic sun-deity over the polytheistic
Egyptian gods would have been of great interest to the Hebrews coming out of
Egypt after a conflict between their own monotheistic deity and the Egyptian gods.
The Greeks would have picked up the same story from the Sea Peoples. Both the Sea
Peoples and the Hebrews attached the story to Samson, the “sun-man,” and made it
part of their literary heritage.