RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 20, 2020 at 7:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2020 at 7:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Unforgiving, forgiving...what on earth? The question of whether the character of abraham was influenced by the character of brahma is just that, and only that. Yes, we have reason to think that it has been. You can do the research yourself, or stop at whatever point you find convenient. Your ideas about unreliable sources are absurd, and I still have no idea whatever it is you think that you're arguing against.
Well move now to The Zohar. You see, they have the same notion, but in reverse.
Rabbi Abba said, ….the children of the East were wise – having inherited a legacy of wisdom from Abraham, who bestowed it upon the sons of the concubines, as is written: To the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still alive, and he sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east. Afterword they were drawn by that wisdom in various directions.‘
It's actually referencing our genesis snippet here. More fun exposition on a theme. All involved parties believed that everyone got everything else from them, each took the time to write down as much - and they were all right. From the time that old magic book gets written, to the time that the zohar appears, we have a span of roughly 2k years in which jewish literature repeatedly makes explicit connections.
Well move now to The Zohar. You see, they have the same notion, but in reverse.
Rabbi Abba said, ….the children of the East were wise – having inherited a legacy of wisdom from Abraham, who bestowed it upon the sons of the concubines, as is written: To the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still alive, and he sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east. Afterword they were drawn by that wisdom in various directions.‘
It's actually referencing our genesis snippet here. More fun exposition on a theme. All involved parties believed that everyone got everything else from them, each took the time to write down as much - and they were all right. From the time that old magic book gets written, to the time that the zohar appears, we have a span of roughly 2k years in which jewish literature repeatedly makes explicit connections.
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