Frases de Cyrus H. Gordon
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Cyrus H. Gordon era lingüista estadounidense.

✵ 29. junio 1908 – 30. marzo 2001
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Cyrus H. Gordon: Frases en inglés

“Battles ended with sunset or dusk; so heroes, on special occasions when they needed more time, were vouchsafed victory by the stoppage of the sun in Greek as well as Hebrew saga.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Footnote Iliad 18: 239-242 (cf: 2: 412-18); Joshua 10: 13-14
Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

“The competent archeologist can date pottery much as some of us can date cars or dresses of our own century.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Fuente: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab

“The nomadic Semite… roves as a herdsman, partaking of Allah's hospitality.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Fuente: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab

“The [Judaic] Patriarchs are depicted as Arameans as long as they remained in their native lands.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

“Heroic epic and saga (Indic as well as Greek and Hebrew, etc.) combine action with genealogy. This is necessary because the action is performed by aristocrats who require genealogies.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

“The priestly guilds were highly mobile, with the result that cultic practices crossed ethnic lines over wide areas.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

“When a new religion supplants an old religion, the gods of the old often survive as the demons of the new.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

“Out of the Armana Age synthesis emerged the earliest traditions of Israel and Greece.”

Cyrus H. Gordon

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

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