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A central issue of Egyptological research is the question of dating the original composition of religious or literary texts. Very prominent is a lively debate about the date of composition of a number of literary texts, traditionally dated to the Late First Intermediate Period or the Early Middle Kingdom but known only from New Kingdom manuscripts. Over the last years, several attempts have been made to date the production of some of these texts much closer to their fi rst physical appearance. More recently the discussion has heated up considerably with contributions that argue for a New Kingdom origin of Merikare, Neferti, and Amenemhet—a reassessment based on conceptions of Egyptian cultural history or on linguistic analysis. On the other hand, there is an equally strong tendency to retain at least the early datings or to propose even earlier ones for some literary and many more religious texts.
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Tradition is central to egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the predynastic to the late period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from new kingdom artists in the theban foothills to old kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, apsects of tradition are approached from a variety of pespectives : as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms ; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission ; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main setions, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions : text, art, and artefacts. The final setion collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media. The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production. This volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by progressive specialisation.
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