The older cultures did not develop the concept of canonical writings. There is no Bible in Egypt or Mesopotamia. Neither country had a collection of sacred writings that excluded other writings from comparable status. ...there was never an official "Book of the Dead" in Egypt.

— Cyrus H. Gordon The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965)

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