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Why cannot the similarities be the consequence of direct literary influence? Well, its clear that Darshan doesn't accept the paradigm that the Pentateuch was written in the Hellenistic period, but a somewhat earlier period, prior to a time when one can imagine direct access to all those Greek liter...

The focus of Gmirkin's study is a comparative analysis of the Pentateuch with Greek works and comparing this analysis with the well-worn studies that have sought comparisons with the Asian works. It is about broadening the scope of material for comparison. That is the key point -- that time and tim...

Thanks for this response, Austen. It may or may not surprise you to know that I was alerted to one of the Darshan essays by Russell Gmirkin himself. I believe Darshan's actual examples point to the very situation in which Gmirkin places the creation of the Pentateuch. Darshan certainly does not att...

Thanks for this response, Austen. It may or may not surprise you to know that I was alerted to one of the Darshan essays by Russell Gmirkin himself. I believe Darshan's actual examples point to the very situation in which Gmirkin places the creation of the Pentateuch. Darshan certainly does not att...

One needs to think of it as a sort of cultural mycelium... and complex interaction, and complex relationships at many levels - both vertical and horizontal (ie chronologically vertical and geographically horizontal). It is in the nature of this cultural consanguinity to be more a "background&q...

but I think it pretty much demands that any answer must take into account that there was earlier pre-existing material that editors did not have free reign to junk , and this is exactly what Gmirkin's thesis does. Does he? I didn’t get that from him. For the avoidance of doubt, I really meant writt...

That may be, but in Timaeus the narrator of the cosmogonic account doesn’t put any weight on names and the Demiurge names nothing in the course of the narrative. This again compromises the notion that Genesis has a literary dependence on Timaeus. [...] But the giving (or not giving) of names certai...

The sense that Leviticus say, seems to be of "different" from its surroundings ... Or if you think I have selected a weak example, what is your strongest? My Leviticus comment definitely was a weak example, which I should have cut ... it was more a note to self that I'm happy to disown. S...

Doubts about this claimed inscription and/or interpretation here (among other places): https://www.timesofisrael.com/academic-article-on-controversial-3200-year-old-curse-tablet-fails-to-sway-experts/ Gershon Galil believes he's found another curse inscription from Jerusalem: https://www.timesofisr...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 2:29 am In the temples.

Evidence? Textual or otherwise?