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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“The fitness (physical and moral) of kings were serious matters, for they were believed to bring on a corresponding state of land and people.”

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

“Homer and Bible… towered above their predecessors and contemporaries.”

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

“By examining the pottery on any given site you can tell during which periods it has been occupied.”

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

“When the characters of epic and heroic saga are on significant missions, they are led divinely.”

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

“The notion of a language of the gods appears in Sanskrit, Greek, Old Norse and Hittite cultures.”

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

“The incorporation of… earlier sources does not mean that the Pentateuch or Former Prophets is the work of an editor who pasted together various docuements. Once we view the work as a whole, we see that it is a fresh creation though not a creatio ex nihilo.”

The same holds for Homeric Epic that has been subjected to the same kinds of modern literary criticism.
Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

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