Re: Plato and the Pentateuch
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:51 pm
About Plato and Pentateuch, RE Gmirkin wote, Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:09 pm [in the Two failures... thread], in part:
"My claim is that the ancient Jews and Samaritans were much better read than anyone previously imagined, well versed in philosophy, science, and international law and literature, and brilliantly successful in creating their own national literature, following the literary agenda laid out in Plato’s Laws. Did you [sg] not read the last chapter of Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible?—of course you didn’t—in which I noted that Hellenistic Era Judea, out of all the nations of the ancient world, was the only one to adopt Plato’s strategy for creating a new constitution, laws and theocratic form of government, supported by a sacred national literature, and that the Jewish experiment succeeded exactly as Plato envisioned, creating an eternal national legal charter that has survived down through time to the present day."
That may seem to imply--correct me if I am mistaken--a claim by REG that Jewish survival is due to Plato.
*If* that is what REG implied, then I do not agree,
"My claim is that the ancient Jews and Samaritans were much better read than anyone previously imagined, well versed in philosophy, science, and international law and literature, and brilliantly successful in creating their own national literature, following the literary agenda laid out in Plato’s Laws. Did you [sg] not read the last chapter of Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible?—of course you didn’t—in which I noted that Hellenistic Era Judea, out of all the nations of the ancient world, was the only one to adopt Plato’s strategy for creating a new constitution, laws and theocratic form of government, supported by a sacred national literature, and that the Jewish experiment succeeded exactly as Plato envisioned, creating an eternal national legal charter that has survived down through time to the present day."
That may seem to imply--correct me if I am mistaken--a claim by REG that Jewish survival is due to Plato.
*If* that is what REG implied, then I do not agree,