Great Hymn to the Aten

Pharaoh Akhenaten and his family adoring the Aten.
Drawing of the inscription of the hymn text (1908 publication).

The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with Atenism.[1] The hymn bears a notable resemblance to the biblical Psalm 104.[2]

  1. ^ Lichtheim, Miriam (2006). Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom. University of California Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-520-24843-4.
  2. ^ Brown, William P.; Schipper, Bernd U. (2014-03-28), "Egyptian Backgrounds to the Psalms", The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199783335.013.004, ISBN 978-0-19-978333-5, retrieved 2023-01-07