review of RE Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts...

[StephenGoranson]

fwiw:
BMCR 2023.06.27
Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts
Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts: cosmic monotheism and terrestrial polytheism in the primordial history. Copenhagen international seminar. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xv, 344. ISBN 9781032020822
Review by
Nicholas Banner, Independent scholar. nicholasbanner@gmail.com

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.06.27/

[neilgodfrey]

Would I be right in understanding the main fault Banner finds with Gmirkin's work is that he expresses himself too confidently and that he should be more cautious -- proposing parallels for further study. I can buy that.

[StephenGoranson]

Though Banner indeed remarked on Gmirkin's excessive expressions of certainty, it may be even more significant that he found the book's main thesis not persuasive.