The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge; exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution; Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print; making them highly accessible to libraries; undergraduate students; and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume; Immanuel Kant; and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day; such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)T166431London : printed for Jacob Tonson; 1709. [8];200p.;plate ; 8°
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Jersualem and Athens; Moses and Muses.By wireloopFor those of us who suspect that the Torah wasn't formed in the vacuum of Moses' mind; and sense it's "Platonism' through-n-through; I found this to be a novel; yet well reasoned-contextual approach to the origins of the Bible. Not necessarily a riveting read; but informative and generously footnoted nonetheless. For me he could have shed more ink explaining how his argument jibes with the Documentary Hypothesis; or have given a nod to the parallels between Platonic allegories and Israel's foundation 'stories'; but shoot....those would be books unto themselves. Now onto demonstrating that the Gospels were written in like manner; eh?6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. An amazing and thought-provoking book!By Daniel SamsonRarely does a book come along that can change the landscape in historical thinking and has implications that are myriad and iconoclastic. Russell Gmirkin’s new work; Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible; is just such a book.Mr. Gmirkin; through meticulous research; has outlined a new puzzle board in which many of the pieces of historical difficulty and inconsistency that have troubled scholars for centuries – finally appear to fall into place. This is a tour-de-force of innovative thinking as Mr. Gmirkin examines the ancient texts much as a detective would; carefully sifting-through the evidence and coming to a startling conclusion. The Bible; as we know it today; was written in Alexandria Egypt around 270 B.C.E using Greek sources from the famous Great Library of Alexandria!Why would the Greeks; who give a great deal of detail on surrounding nations such as Egypt; Persia; Mesopotamia; and Syria; fall almost completely silent on what they call Palestine; except for one obscure reference by Herodotus who only speaks of the region; but who does not mention the words Jew; Israel; or the Torah?I had long wondered why Plato’s Timaeus appeared to read like a philosophical Greek outline and intellectual framework for the Book of Genesis. And then there is the question of the palpably strange silence in the writings of Herodotus; Plato and Aristotle regarding the Jewish Torah; the first five books of the Hebrew Bible; and even the nation of Israel itself; from the 6th century until the middle of the 4th century B.C.E. This book solves this long unsettled and paradoxical issue in Greek history by firmly establishing the timetable of the composition of the Torah; and the implications are myriad and earth-shattering.Mr. Gmirkin has written a remarkable book that is nothing less than a rewrite of the last 2;400 years of human history. He carefully discusses the legalistic code in the book of Exodus and gives us the startling parallels that demonstrate that they were drawn from Plato’s Laws which were written in the middle of the 4th century B.C.E. This book should not only be read carefully; but it should be digested slowly while doing other background reading in Greek and Roman history. It is a remarkable synthesis that profoundly altered my perspective of this critical period in human history. This is a mark of genius when a scholar is capable of providing a simple idea that is only seen as such in hindsight; an idea that crystallizes many obscure historical puzzle pieces into a clear and concise picture that cannot be seen any other way. Kudos to Mr. Gmirkin; for an historical bombshell which will be discussed and debated by scholars and laymen for many years to come.Daniel J Samson – Author of God and Evolution – The Implications of Darwin’s Theory for Fundamentalism; the Bible; and the Meaning of Life.
