William Durand-Poole

The rivers are full of fish.

The deeds of this god are just purely benevolent.

This sun shines down not only on Egypt, but on all lands, which I think is really fascinating.

But there's 600 years between the two.

Yeah, at least 600 years between the two.

James Henry Breasted, around about 1900, great Egyptologist, he firmly believed that the author of Psalm 104 knew the great art and hymn somehow, you know, and this is his version of it.

Nowadays, few people think that, although there are a couple of adherents still to it.

Miriam Liftheim, a great scholar of hieroglyphs in the 1970s, 1980s, she thought that this is really standard or generic creation imagery we have in Egypt, in the Levant, in Mesopotamia.

I agree with her on all of that.

But what I can't quite qualify is the structural similarities between the two.

Because in fact, if you take them verse by verse, they do echo one another all the time.

I mean, there's a constant to-ing and fro-ing between them.

Oh, so many.

So many.

The metaphors and similes are absolutely standard across the whole of the ancient Near East, which includes Egypt.

Okay.

So that's not an issue for me at all.

Which itself is interesting because we kind of think of Egypt as being different.

No, it's not so different, honestly.

Yeah.