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I was looking at Pthena's post and seeing how he was looking at it, as being myth, so I was trying to write my post as to fit with that premise, of big chunks of the tradition being myths. I was attempting to show how today's situation could have come about, given a second premise of my own, that there is a remaining reality on a certain level, behind the tradition, meaning what resulted in the Old Testament, but also the wider world. Not exactly the easiest task but I am studying all the time to get a better focused perspective.
I agree with your last but not with much of how you got there. If you take it as literal that is.
I was looking at Pthena's post and seeing how he was looking at it, as being myth
that there is a remaining reality on a certain level, behind the tradition, meaning what resulted in the Old Testament, but also the wider world.
I feel rather negligent (as I feel about a lot of things I am not getting accomplished) about not reading that far yet, being caught up in these New Testament "authenticity" questions of late. So I end up looking at things from a Pauline point of view, all-of-a-sudden.
I would recommend reading chapter 3 THE INVENTION OF THE EXILE of The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand.
I feel rather negligent (as I feel about a lot of things I am not getting accomplished) about not reading that far yet, being caught up in these New Testament "authenticity" questions of late. So I end up looking at things from a Pauline point of view, all-of-a-sudden
OK, cool.
So I downloaded Cicero's De natura deorum, which compares Epicurean with Stoic with Academic(from Plato's school). That was written 45 BCE. I haven't read much of that.
When you say, download, is that like in, Kindle?