Sunday, April 17, 2016

From Plato to Moses?

THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION:
From Plato to Moses: Genesis-Kings as a Platonic Epic

Article from Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity (Routledge, 2016).

By Philippe Wajdenbaum
University of Brussels
April 2016
Well that's something different. I find the idea that Classical Greek literature influenced the Hebrew Bible philologically very difficult. I would expect to see considerable Greek-language influence on the Hebrew. But in any case, this sounds like an interesting new volume.