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Question 57

Spot the error in this afterlife claim: Every copy of the Book of the Dead was one identical canonical volume. What is the best correction?

  1. A royal census
  2. One fixed spellbook
  3. Selected spellsCorrect answer
  4. An embalming manual

Explanation

The name covers collections assembled from funerary compositions, with different selections appearing in different copies. A fixed canonical volume is misleading because surviving examples do not all contain an identical set or order.

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