James Henry Breasted's A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905 and revised in 1906, is an early landmark of American Egyptology by one of the field's founding scholars, and it is the work in which the comparison between Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten and the Hebrew Bible's Psalm 104 was first pressed into scholarly discussion. Its authority rests on Breasted's own direct work with Egyptian primary sources at a formative period for the discipline. Its limit is age and a specific interpretive claim: the textual comparison itself is genuine and has been widely discussed since, but the inference that one text directly influenced the other remains a debated scholarly argument rather than an established fact, and more than a century of subsequent Egyptological and biblical scholarship has refined points a 1905 survey could not have known.
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James Henry Breasted's A History of Egypt, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, is an early landmark of American Egyptology by one of the field's founding scholars, the middle tier reflecting its age and a specific interpretive claim (the Aten hymn to Psalm 104 comparison) that remains debated rather than settled, notwithstanding Breasted's own direct primary-source work. Notes1905-06. Where the comparison between the Great Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104 was first pressed. The comparison is genuine; the inference of direct dependence is not established.
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AuthorJames Henry Breasted
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication Year1905
Source TypeScholarly work
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