RE: I'll Have To Wait For The Paperback
October 26, 2011 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2011 at 10:52 pm by Justtristo.)
(October 26, 2011 at 9:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We can quibble about the 450 date. The Greeks came rolling through in 332. Prior to that they were loyal to Persia.
I should correct that 450 BCE would be the earliest I think the Pentateuch was written, it could have been written later. The other books of the Old Testament apart from Daniel (which would around 150 BCE), I cannot say when they could be dated to.
(October 26, 2011 at 10:25 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Wow. I had long noticed a big similarity between Christianity and Platonism, but I had no idea that it was in any way deliberate (at least before the days of St. Augustine, anyway.)
Earl Doherty's book The Jesus Puzzle argues that Christianity in it's formative stages was influenced by Middle Platonism. In that according to Doherty Jesus originally came "down" the "sub-lunar" sphere rather than the Earth. Where he was killed by the demonic forces and was resurrected from the dead. Doherty described also Platonists believed in the sub-lunar spheres being inhabited by demons (both good and malevolent in nature).
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