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Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts

Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

By: Russell E. Gmirkin

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Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts

Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

By: Russell E. Gmirkin

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of "the sons of God" and the daughters of men, and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11, drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies, philosophy and creation narratives. .

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1000578429

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Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

By: Russell E. Gmirkin

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Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

By: Russell E. Gmirkin

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 Great Library of Alexandria, and applies this to an examination of the biblical law codes. A striking number of legal parallels are found between the Pentateuch and Athenian laws, and specifically with those found in Plato's Laws of ca. 350 BCE. Constitutional features in biblical law, Athenian law, and Plato's Laws also contain close correspondences. Several genres of biblical law, including the Decalogue, are shown to have striking parallels with Greek legal collections, and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with Greek literature. All this evidence points to direct influence from Greek writings, especially Plato's Laws, on the biblical legal tradition. Finally, it is argued that the creation of the Hebrew Bible took place according to the program found in Plato's Laws for creating a legally authorized national ethical literature, reinforcing the importance of this specific Greek text to the authors of the Torah and Hebrew Bible in the early Hellenistic Era. This study offers a fascinating analysis of the background to the Pentateuch, and will be of interest not only to biblical scholars, but also to students of Plato, ancient law, and Hellenistic literary traditions.

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1134854587

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Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch

By: Russell Gmirkin

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Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch

By: Russell Gmirkin

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus argues that the Pentateuch was written in 273-272 BCE under the patronage of Ptolemy II Philadelphus by the Septuagint scholars drawing on Hellenistic historical sources from the Great Library of Alexandria. >

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0567025926

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Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch

By: Russell Gmirkin

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Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch

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Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

By: Russell E. Gmirkin

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Taylor & Francis

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113485451X

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist

By: Dick Russell

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist

By: Dick Russell

Considered to be the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, James Hillman is known as the founder of archetypal psychology and the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling title The Soul’s Code. In The Making of a Psychologist, we follow Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City, through post-war Paris and Dublin, travels in Africa and Kashmir, and onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute, which appointed him its first director of studies in 1960. This first of a two-volume authorized biography is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with Hillman and others over a seven-year period. Discover how Hillman’s unique psychology was forged through his life experiences and found its basis in the imagination, aesthetics, a return to the Greek pantheon, and the importance of “soul-making,” and gain a better understanding of the mind of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the twentieth century.

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Skyhorse

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1611459311

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Summary: DotCom Secrets

Review and Analysis of Brunson's Book

By: BusinessNews Publishing

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Summary: DotCom Secrets

Review and Analysis of Brunson's Book

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The must-read summary of Russell Brunson's book: "DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online". This complete summary of the ideas from Russell Brunson's book "DotCom Secrets" shows the importance of building a good sales funnel for your online business. This is what will drive traffic to your website and then push them through to make a purchase. The funnel is made up of various different strategies; a traffic strategy, a product strategy and a communication strategy. By fine-tuning these strategies you will create a funnel that leads customers from when they arrive at your website to profit for your business. This summary tells you exactly how to create this profit-boosting funnel by taking you through each step of the process with clear diagrams and concise explanations. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "DotCom Secrets" and learn how to boost profits for your online business.

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2511040948

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume II: Re-Visioning Psychology

By: Dick Russell

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume II: Re-Visioning Psychology

By: Dick Russell

James Hillman, who died in 2011 at the age of eighty-five, has been described by poet Robert Bly as “the most lively and original psychologist” of the twentieth century. Based on author Dick Russell’s interviews with Hillman and dozens of people who knew him, Volume Two of The Life and Ideas of James Hillman takes up Hillman’s mid-life when he set about returning psychology to its Soul-rich roots in Greek mythology and Renaissance esotericism. From his base teaching at Zurich’s Jung Institute, we follow Hillman’s growing international prominence as a maverick in the field, coinciding with his relationship and eventual marriage to Patricia Berry. They would be instrumental in formulating Archetypal Psychology, along with a group of young compatriots in what became known as Spring House. The new ideas taking shape moved psychology away from the dominant scientific/medical model with its focus on treating the isolated individual, expanding into the fertile realm of culture and the imagination. Amid prodigious writings and lectures, Hillman made mythology and even alchemy relevant to our times. Delivering the prestigious Terry Lectures at Yale and being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Hillman returned to America after living primarily in Europe for thirty years. To the surprise of many, he settled in Dallas and helped found an Institute of Humanities and Culture while taking up how to re-imagine city planning. Equally surprising was Hillman’s subsequent move to rural Connecticut, where he and Pat Berry resided in a nineteenth-century farmhouse. Starting in the mid-’80s, Hillman became a pioneering teacher in the mythopoetic men’s movement alongside Robert Bly and Michael Meade—where deep talk about fathers and sons and male-female relationships offered a new kind of group therapy, a cultural therapy. As Thomas Moore said of Hillman, he possessed a “genius for taking any theme and shedding serious fresh light on it.” Along the way, Hillman’s insights came to encompass all of the arts, a “poetic basis of mind” that connected him to many of the most influential artists and thinkers of the modern era.

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Simon and Schuster

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1956763198

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Book's by Russell Gmirkin

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Summary: DotCom Secrets

Summary: DotCom Secrets

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

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