ABSTRACT
The two ideas found their forms in totally different cultural environments and only secondarily when brought into mutual contact could not escape provoking contrasts and contradictions, and they could not escape influencing each other. The general explanation for the absence of the Egyptians has been that Egypt was in a state of crisis in the Amarna period, or that Amenophis IV's interests were mainly religious, or simply referring to the indolent nature of the rulers of the 18th dynasty. The Amarna period was not an especially political time of crisis in the parts of Syria and Palestine controlled by Egypt. The new powers found in the south a situation ready for their assumption of power because of the prolonged lack of political and social stability, which was the product of the indifference of the Egyptians as far as the fate of the local kings was concerned.
