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S04E04: HUM223 Wk2 - The Sun and the Psalm: Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104
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The Sun and the Psalm: Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104
Description:
Around 1350 BC an Egyptian pharaoh tore down a thousand years of religion and replaced it with a single sun disk. The poem he left behind describes dawn, darkness, lions, and a chick breathing inside its shell. Three thousand years later, readers noticed how much it sounds like Psalm 104. This episode works through the Great Hymn to the Aten on its own terms, catalogs the powers it claims for its god, sets it honestly beside Psalm 104, weighs the borrowing question, and then names the differences…
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