Thanks! I didn't even think to google it, LOL. I should start doing that.
Aww, yes, cool! It turns out I have online access to this.
I agree with the author that this hymn is a cut-and-paste from an earlier source. It turns out that there is a lot of contention over the original source, though, because people have argued for nods to Jewish, Hellenic, Mithraic, and Iranian traditions.
The author's argument is that there's an Egyptian style of aretalogy that compiles accounts of deities from 13 disparate traditions and then argues that they all embody a single deity. The last one cited is the "true" origin. He cites an example involving Isis.
I'm not familiar enough with Egyptian scripture of the time to really comment, but sure, it seems feasible to me. There was a fair bit of seeding of Coptic culture into Gnostic tradition.
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Date: 2010-08-11 10:16 pm (UTC)Aww, yes, cool! It turns out I have online access to this.
I agree with the author that this hymn is a cut-and-paste from an earlier source. It turns out that there is a lot of contention over the original source, though, because people have argued for nods to Jewish, Hellenic, Mithraic, and Iranian traditions.
The author's argument is that there's an Egyptian style of aretalogy that compiles accounts of deities from 13 disparate traditions and then argues that they all embody a single deity. The last one cited is the "true" origin. He cites an example involving Isis.
I'm not familiar enough with Egyptian scripture of the time to really comment, but sure, it seems feasible to me. There was a fair bit of seeding of Coptic culture into Gnostic tradition.