Russell E. Gmirkin

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin takes up his theory that the Pentat

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134854585
• Artikelnr.: 45683176

Autorenporträt

Russell E. Gmirkin is a writer, researcher, and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Athenian and Pentateuchal Legal Institutions
Chapter 3: Biblical, Ancient Near Eastern, and Greek Laws
Chapter 4: Greek and Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections
Chapter 5: Greek and Biblical Legal Narratives
Chapter 6: The Creation of the Hebrew Bible
Index of References
Index of Authors

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations



Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Athenian and Pentateuchal Legal Institutions

Chapter 3: Biblical, Ancient Near Eastern, and Greek Laws

Chapter 4: Greek and Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections

Chapter 5: Greek and Biblical Legal Narratives

Chapter 6: The Creation of the Hebrew Bible



Index of References

Index of Authors

Rezensionen

"In this book, Russell E. Gmirkin has produced a brilliant demonstration of the Hebrew Bible's dependence on Plato's Laws, with a focus on the Pentateuch. The demonstration is remarkably clear and convincing, and I am confidant that the theory proposed will be discussed favourably among biblical scholars, and also among classical and philosophical scholars."

- Philippe Wajdenbaum, previously Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Belgium