fwiw:
BMCR 2023.06.27
Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts
Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts: cosmic monotheism and terrestrial polytheism in the primordial history. Copenhagen international seminar. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xv, 344. ISBN 9781032020822
Review by
Nicholas Banner, Independent scholar. nicholasbanner@gmail.com
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.06.27/
review of RE Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts...
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Re: review of RE Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts...
Would I be right in understanding the main fault Banner finds with Gmirkin's work is that he expresses himself too confidently and that he should be more cautious -- proposing parallels for further study. I can buy that.
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Re: review of RE Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts...
Though Banner indeed remarked on Gmirkin's excessive expressions of certainty, it may be even more significant that he found the book's main thesis not persuasive.