the Pentateuch (AKA the Torah, ie: the first five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy).
He claims the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed and compiled 273–272 BCE in Alexandria, Egypt, by the very Jewish scholars later credited with its Greek translation, the Septuagint. Note: he accepts that there may be some older oral traditions incorporated into this project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwgTkUx--Q
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/review-russell-e-gmirkin-plato-and-creation-hebrew-bible
innovative work on the late date and Greek sources of the Hebrew Bible and on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This web site gives a background on past and current projects , including a detailed outline of my 2017 books with Routledge, Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible
Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the fi rst 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 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, specifi cally 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 to Greek legal collections, and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with Greek literature. This evidence points to direct infl uence of 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 specifi c 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.
https://russellgmirkin.com/plato-and-the-hebrew-bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2CYpOFQrrQ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-VRwkQ2ZvZgJdv4-Nxj0GZrIAMWrML1e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEyTEy3J5Yc&list=PL-VRwkQ2ZvZhrptmDX4Jvemi4X942f9WM
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