Dear Karl,
Thank you for your answer. I am glad we can discuss this issue.
... Among theMore than just two religions, history is involved.
three scenarios that you cite, the common ideas circulating around the
Mediteranean and the Levant is the most used among modern scholars. The
borrowing by the Greeks from the Jews was the idea of Clement and Eusebius.
The last scenario, borrowing by the Jews from the Greeks, is rarely
defended, because two religions at least are at stake in this. Yet it is a
possibility.
You are right to say that there are no sufficiant historical data to prove
or to disprove anything. But there is one thing: the Greek authors, excepted
Homer, are known through many sources and were real men.
... . The central point of this text isBut you have to deal first with the historical question. The internal
that he says the legislator should become a poet and tell myths to the
people in order to make them obey the law willingly.
To me it seems like this text gives the project for the Torah. ...
...
Nonetheless, if I am wrong about who copied who, there are still the facts:
many laws and ideas are common to Plato's Laws and the Torah. So I don't
understand why, among the hundreds of thousands of books commenting those
texts, I cannot find one that compares them (except Eusebius)? Isn't it
because it is a very embarassing point for scholars? And why is Platos' Laws
the least published and the least studied of his works? Isn't it because it
raises a question nobody is ready to answer?
Regards,
Philippe Wajdenbaum
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