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| Translator's Note | |
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| Map of Egypt | |
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| The Founder of a Religion Is Discovered | |
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| Champollion's Impressions | |
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| Lepsius Discovers the Founder | |
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| Vague Recollections in Antiquity | |
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| The Discovery Is Completed | |
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| The "Heretic" as Precursor of Modern Ideas | |
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| New Archaeological Finds | |
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| A New Religion Comes to Light | |
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| The First Biography and Its Influence | |
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| Critical Notes Are Sounded | |
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| Not in the Mists of Later Legends | |
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| The Religious Background | |
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| The New Solar Theology | |
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| His Father's Policies | |
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| The Royal Sed-Festival | |
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| The Festival of the Elder King | |
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| The Search for New Intermediaries | |
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| The First Steps | |
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| The Royal Titulary as Program for a Reign | |
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| Pharaoh's Titulary | |
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| The Origin of a God | |
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| The Sanctuaries at Karnak | |
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| Once Again, the Sed-Festival | |
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| The Grotesque Pharaoh | |
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| No Fear of Emotion | |
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| Only One God | |
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| Akhenaten's "Perestroika" | |
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| "The Beautiful Child of the Living Aten" | |
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| A New Religion | |
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| No Divine Revelation | |
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| God as Pharaoh | |
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| Pharaoh as God | |
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| The Female Element: Nefertiti | |
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| Possible Advisers | |
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| A City for a God | |
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| The Founding of Akhetaten | |
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| An Unusual Residence | |
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| Comfort Is Required | |
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| The City of Light | |
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| The Pure Teaching | |
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| New Sanctuaries for the Aten | |
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| A Holy Family | |
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| A Change of Name | |
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| The Great Hymn to the Aten | |
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| The Universal Deity: Light | |
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| The Question of Monotheism | |
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| Persecution of the Old Deities | |
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| Egypt as the "Cradle of Monotheism"? | |
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| The Cosmic God of the Ramesside Period | |
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| The Monotheistic "Cosmic Formula" | |
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| Belief in an Afterlife without a Hereafter | |
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| Osiris in the Shadow of the New Light | |
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| The Afterlife Becomes This-worldly | |
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| Living On in the Temple | |
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| External Forms | |
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| The King's Grace Replaces the Judgment of the Dead | |
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| The Inyotef Song | |
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| Dark Years | |
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| The Eventful Year 12 | |
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| Kiya, the Beloved | |
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| The Dakhamanzu Affair | |
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| A "Sunset" Filled with Mystery | |
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| Mockery of the "Heretic King" | |
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| The End Is Uncertain | |
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| The Successors | |
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| Many Women, but No Heir | |
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| Tutankhaten Makes His Appearance | |
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| Return to Amun and Ptah | |
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| The End of the Dynasty: Aya and Haremhab | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Failure and Continuity | |
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| More Than an Episode | |
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| The Sun Endures | |
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| Roots of Fundamentalism | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |