I’m not so sure that these two versions is a result of direct borrowing. It was kind of hard to relate the two together because in the other comparisons that we have done there were words that were specifically the same throughout the two.
The first similarity between the two texts is: in the Psalm book line 2: “Wrapped in light like a cloak, stretching out heavens like a tent-cloth.” And when The Hymn to the Aten states: “You are appealing, great, sparkling, high over every land; your rays embrace the lands as far as everything you have made.” The only difference really is the amount of words it takes to get the point across. It appears that in the book of Psalms and in the Hymn to the Aten, someone is telling the Lord that the light that he creates covers everything that he has made. In the books of Psalms line 14, it says, “he makes the hay sprout for cattle, grass for the labor of humankind to bring forth bread from the earth,” seems like a chain reaction in a way. One thing leads to another that leads to another, and gives us the things we need for nourishment. In the Hymn to the Aten, it says, “in the underworld you make a Nile that you may bring it forth as you wish to feed the populance,” it says he does what he does for the betterment of the people, but only when he chooses too. While in the book of Psalms to me it says that he does what he does for the betterment of the population all the time.
They both represent the lives of Israelites to me because I believe that the book of Psalms kind of describes the things that they ended up going through over the times, and both readings send the same message. What I got from the Psalms and the Hymn to the Aten was that everything that happened was simply to benefit something else. These two are similar in the messages that they are trying to get across, but the book of Psalms is more obvious with how it perceives the message.
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