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...Kingdom coffins from the Middle Egyptian Necropolis at Bershe is nowadays widely known as the Book of Two Ways. It is certainly one of the more intensively studied parts of the so-called Coffin texts, treated in two modern monographs, of which one (L. Lesko, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways [Univ. of California Press, 1972]) focuses on translation problems, and the other (E. Hermsen, Die zwei Wege des Jenseits: Das altagyptische Zweiwegebuch und seine Topographie, OBO 112 [Freiburg/ Gottingen, 1991]) on funerary religion. In addition, several journal articles discuss the material. Still, this new publication compares favorably with all of them, being philologically more precise than Lesko's work and more in-depth concerning the content than that of Hermsen. Besides, it has an obviously new focus, namely textual criticism.

Using methods mainly developed by German Egyptologists from Tubingen, Backes tries to establish the relationship of the different manuscripts to each other, and thus to arrive at a stemma which helps to come as close as possible to the hypothetical original of the composition. This reconstructed text is presented in transliteration and translation and is the basis for the commentary on the content. Fairly extended sections explain which divergent readings are considered as simple errors and which merit a bit more consideration as possible...

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