MythVision Podcast | The Book of Judges ANCIENT Israel History | MythVision Documentary @MythVisionPodcast | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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[1] Lester L. Grabbe (2016), “Late Bronze Age Palestine: If we had only the Bible…”, The Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, 2016, p. 43
[2] Grabbe (2016), p. 23
[3] Robin Baker (2016), Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes and Otherness in the Book of Judges, 2016, p. 43.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Martin Noth (1981), The Deuteronomistic History, p. 43, quoted in Baker, p. 45
[6] Grabbe (2016), p. 36.
[7] https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/the-babelbible-conflict/
[8] Lemche (1992), “Det gamle Testamente som en hellenistisk bog”, DTT 55, pp. 81–101, published in English in Lemche (1993), “The Old Testament: A Hellenistic Book?”, SJOT 7, pp. 163–93.
[9] Barstad (2001), “Deuteronomists, Persians, Greeks”, in Did Moses Speak Attic?
[10] Klaas Spronk (2010). “The Book of Judges as Late Construct”, in Historiography and Identity: (Re)Formation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature, pp. 17–18. Note that many Bible translations change Samuel to Samson and Bedan to Barak to conceal these inconsistencies.
[11] Guillaume (2014) p. 154; cf. Emanuel Tov (2015), Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, Septuagint: Collected Essays, Volume 3, pp. 144ff
[12] E. Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2012, pp. 197-8, cited by Guillaume (2014) p. 154
[13] Spronk, Klaas, “From Joshua to Samuel – Some Remarks on the Origin of the Book of Judges”, in The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology, 2009, p. 149.
[14] Guillaume p. 155
[15] For a longer analysis of these parallels, see Robert Karl Gnuse, Hellenism and the Primary History, 2021, pp. 47–58.
[16] A. Van Selms, “Judge Shamgar”, VT, 13/3, 1964, p. 302.
[17] Bruce Louden, The Illiad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning, 2006, p. 168.
[18] Ronald S. Hendel, “Of Demigods and the Deluge”, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 106, No. 1 (Mar., 1987), especially pp. 19-20.
[19] Christopher Lemardelé, “Note Concerning the Problem of Samson the Nazirite in the Biblical Studies”, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2016), p. 65.
[20] Louden, p. 171.
[21] Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan, From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, 2012. See also Mac Zvi Brettler, “Who Was Samson’s Real Father?” at thetorah.com/article/who-was-samsons-real-father, and Naphtali Meshel, “Samson the Demigod?” at thetorah.com/article/samson-the-demigod.
[22] Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert, p. 225
[23] “Heracles” in the Dictionary of Deities and Demons, Second Edition, p. 404
[24] Louis H. Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, p. 527
[25] Diodorus Siculus, Library XI, 10
[26] Wajdenbaum (2011), pp. 217-18
[27] Louis H. Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, pp. 527-8
[28] Emanuel Pfoh (2014), “Ancient Historiography, Biblical Stories, and Hellenism”, in The Bible and Hellenism: Greek Influence on Jewish and Early Christian Literature, p. 32.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:52 A Book Out of Time
8:58 Hellenistic Invention?
14:38 Hesiods Heroes
18:46 Ending of Judges
20:54 Mythical Heroes
27:02 Samson
32:35 Gideon
34:50 Conclusion
#mythvision #Judges #Bible
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Uncover the hidden Greek influences in the Bible's Age of Heroes. New research suggests the legends of Samson, Gideon, and other biblical "judges" were inspired by Greek heroic myths. Join our journey of biblical history and mythology to discover the Hellenistic origins of scripture.
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[1] Lester L. Grabbe (2016), “Late Bronze Age Palestine: If we had only the Bible…”, The Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, 2016, p. 43
[2] Grabbe (2016), p. 23
[3] Robin Baker (2016), Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes and Otherness in the Book of Judges, 2016, p. 43.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Martin Noth (1981), The Deuteronomistic History, p. 43, quoted in Baker, p. 45
[6] Grabbe (2016), p. 36.
[7] https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/the-babelbible-conflict/
[8] Lemche (1992), “Det gamle Testamente som en hellenistisk bog”, DTT 55, pp. 81–101, published in English in Lemche (1993), “The Old Testament: A Hellenistic Book?”, SJOT 7, pp. 163–93.
[9] Barstad (2001), “Deuteronomists, Persians, Greeks”, in Did Moses Speak Attic?
[10] Klaas Spronk (2010). “The Book of Judges as Late Construct”, in Historiography and Identity: (Re)Formation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature, pp. 17–18. Note that many Bible translations change Samuel to Samson and Bedan to Barak to conceal these inconsistencies.
[11] Guillaume (2014) p. 154; cf. Emanuel Tov (2015), Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, Septuagint: Collected Essays, Volume 3, pp. 144ff
[12] E. Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2012, pp. 197-8, cited by Guillaume (2014) p. 154
[13] Spronk, Klaas, “From Joshua to Samuel – Some Remarks on the Origin of the Book of Judges”, in The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology, 2009, p. 149.
[14] Guillaume p. 155
[15] For a longer analysis of these parallels, see Robert Karl Gnuse, Hellenism and the Primary History, 2021, pp. 47–58.
[16] A. Van Selms, “Judge Shamgar”, VT, 13/3, 1964, p. 302.
[17] Bruce Louden, The Illiad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning, 2006, p. 168.
[18] Ronald S. Hendel, “Of Demigods and the Deluge”, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 106, No. 1 (Mar., 1987), especially pp. 19-20.
[19] Christopher Lemardelé, “Note Concerning the Problem of Samson the Nazirite in the Biblical Studies”, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2016), p. 65.
[20] Louden, p. 171.
[21] Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan, From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, 2012. See also Mac Zvi Brettler, “Who Was Samson’s Real Father?” at thetorah.com/article/who-was-samsons-real-father, and Naphtali Meshel, “Samson the Demigod?” at thetorah.com/article/samson-the-demigod.
[22] Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert, p. 225
[23] “Heracles” in the Dictionary of Deities and Demons, Second Edition, p. 404
[24] Louis H. Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, p. 527
[25] Diodorus Siculus, Library XI, 10
[26] Wajdenbaum (2011), pp. 217-18
[27] Louis H. Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, pp. 527-8
[28] Emanuel Pfoh (2014), “Ancient Historiography, Biblical Stories, and Hellenism”, in The Bible and Hellenism: Greek Influence on Jewish and Early Christian Literature, p. 32.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:52 A Book Out of Time
8:58 Hellenistic Invention?
14:38 Hesiods Heroes
18:46 Ending of Judges
20:54 Mythical Heroes
27:02 Samson
32:35 Gideon
34:50 Conclusion
#mythvision #Judges #Bible
