Abstract
The Book of Two Ways is a part of the large body of Egyptian Coffin Texts. Even though the work was known from numerous coffins, it appeared to have been a very unreliable Guide to the Beyond. Now, by examining the layout of the work, four versions are found which can be shown to have come from two distinct sources. By breaking the work down into its original component parts, the different sections can be shown to represent earlier separate traditions about the afterlife. The reasons for including the individual traditions in one or the other of the original sources become clear, and we show that the earlier work looked toward an afterlife with Osiris while the later had accompanying Re in the solar bark as its chief goal for the deceased. The present study includes many notes to de Buck's edition of the work and also contains some findings bearing on the relationship of the Book of Two Ways to the Book of the Dead.
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