1st Edition

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

By Russell E. Gmirkin Copyright 2017
346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

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 Pentateuch was written around 270 BCE using Greek sources found at the... Read more


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

Biography

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).

"I find this a provocative, stimulating study. This is a significant and exciting contribution to the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the influence of Greek culture on the Hebrew Bible. It should be of interest to a number of audiences, those interested in the Hebrew Bible, classicists, comparatists, philosophers and political scientists."

- Bruce Louden, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

 

"Gmirkin's book is a richly detailed (form and motif), historical comparison of Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Pentateuchal law collections that comes as a welcome addition to his 2006 work Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus."

- Journal of Theological Studies

 

"... [a] very interesting and well documented study"

- Étienne Nodet, French Biblical and Archeological School of Jerusalem, Israel, Revue Biblique, 2018