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May 8, 2024, 9:16 pm UTC    
August 08, 2007 09:35AM
According to my current understanding the PT's were supposedly a collection of texts that had been assembled over a period of centuries, rewritten, reedited, recollated and finally carved onto the pyramid of Unas.

But recently my own research, in a completely different direction, made me wonder whether this was true. What if the PT's were, in fact, the writings of one individual? Right now my copy of the PT's takes up a couple of hundred pages, which is something well within the range of a single author. Look at all the thousands of religious texts that were written by a single author.

Consider the fact that before the PT's were written AFAIK, there isn't anything like them (I Know I'm on thin ice here. OK isn't my specialty at all) anywhere in Egypt. Then they explode in Unas's tomb. Which makes me think that some solitary AE literary genius wrote them.

So I'm wondering what is the evidence, pro and con, that the PT's were written by a single person?
Subject Author Posted

Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 09:35AM

In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 09:38AM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 09:53AM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 09:59AM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 10:06AM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 11:57AM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 12:23PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 12:47PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 12:50PM

Request ...

Hermione August 08, 2007 12:56PM

Re: In a word: no.

Joe_S September 20, 2007 03:05AM

Re: In a word: no.

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 10:04AM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 10:07AM

Re: In a word: no.

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 10:20AM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 01:01PM

Re: In a word: no.

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 01:27PM

Re: In a word: no.

Greg Reeder August 08, 2007 01:37PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 02:00PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 02:25PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 02:26PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 02:40PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 03:36PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 03:38PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 03:41PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 05:20PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 05:23PM

Re: In a word: no.

Greg Reeder August 08, 2007 05:30PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 05:37PM

Re: In a word: no.

Greg Reeder August 08, 2007 05:51PM

Re: In a word: no.

Anthony August 08, 2007 05:56PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 11:45PM

Re: In a word: no.

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 10:09AM

Re: In a word: no.

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 10:37AM

Re: In a word: no.

Greg Reeder August 08, 2007 10:12AM

Re: In a word: no.

Roxana Cooper August 08, 2007 11:14AM

Re: In a word: no.

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 12:17PM

Re: In a word: no.

Roxana Cooper August 08, 2007 01:31PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Greg Reeder August 08, 2007 09:55AM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Ritva Kurittu August 08, 2007 09:59AM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Anthony August 08, 2007 10:01AM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

cladking August 08, 2007 10:35AM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Hermione August 08, 2007 12:47PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 12:57PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Anthony August 08, 2007 02:03PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 05:59PM

OH!!!!!!

Anthony August 08, 2007 06:17PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Chris Tedder August 08, 2007 02:17PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Ken B August 08, 2007 03:53PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 05:34PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Anthony August 08, 2007 05:59PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Rick Baudé August 08, 2007 06:07PM

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author?

Anthony August 08, 2007 06:20PM



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