Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I went to your website and it was great, it kind
> of confirms what I've been thinking. That this was
> the introduction of a new set of texts or a
> revision of texts with a new Hero "Osiris"
> >



It seems to be a new set, from what I can tell.



>
> This constant recycling of material suggests to me
> that it's original source was one author or one
> editor who was collating material together for
> future use.
> >



Or that it was still being developed at the time.... especially the Osiris materials.



> > What this indicates to me is a distinct
> pattern
> > which stronly suggests that PT material was
> added
> > in stages, at least concerning Osiris, thus
> > arguing against a single source and surely
> against
> > a single author.
>
> I agree that the material evolved after it was
> introduced in Unas's tomb, but the evolution was
> due to the rise Osiris.

We're on exactly the same page here.


> The fact that all of the
> texts are pretty much in amazing concordance with
> each other would be what we would expect to find
> from a single author or a group of men who were
> editing a diverse set of documents into one
> primary set of texts.


No, it means that of the giant corpus of texts that may have existed from the 27th Century BCE onward, the ones SELECTED were the ones that fit the overall worldview of the 23rd Century BCE.



Anthony

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