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PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE DEMOTIC BOOK OF THOTH AND THE GREEK HERMETICA* BY JEAN-PIERRE MAHÉ To Professor Gilles Quispel on the occasion of his 80th birthday, as a token of gratitude and admiration. At the last Cambridge Conference on Egyptology, Richard Jasnow read a preliminary research report concerning a presumably Demotic Book of Thoth (BT) which he and Karl-Theodor Zauzich are currently editing on the basis of several papyri most of which seem to date to the II century A.D.' Due to the difficulty of the text and the fragmentary state of its different versions, much work has still to bc done. However the editors already can see the general outlines of thc composition and they have even been able to provide translations and reconstructions of many passageS.2 Thc work is basically a dialogue in question and answer form. The two chief interlocutors are the God Thoth and a disciple "who wishes to know." Another god, seemingly Osiris, also speaks with the disciple (JZ 1-2). This literary framc might suggest a comparison with the Greek Hermetic writings, which are also teaching dialogues between Hermes- Thoth and disciples. This comparison would appear all the more legitimate that in the
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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