Rick Baudé Wrote:
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>

> I'm not going to argue the point to stridently.
> Can we compromise and say a blend of old and new
> texts into a kind of Reader's Digest Condensed
> version?



Not with regards to a lot of the Osirian spells. I haven't checked them all, but a good number of them are new. Of that I'm absolutely positive.



> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
>
>
> I don't have any problem with that.
>



This agreeing thing between us is getting worrisome...lol.



>
>
> >
> > > > 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.
>
>
> >
> Good!
>


Looking up the number for a good therapist....




>
>
> >
> > > 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.
> >
>
>
>
> Kind of what I said. Same idea different words.
>


Well, now that I've seen your other post, I realize we are so close to the same position on this subject that the difference is meaningless.

I'm glad we hashed this out. GOOD LUCK!

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2007 06:25PM by Anthony.