[lbo-talk] RE: literacy

[Chris Doss]

absolutely. certainly there's a wide array of influences on biblical 
literature. i would probably argue, though, that any pre-modern influence in 
the west from ancient egyptian literature is largely felt through biblical 
lit. maybe even exclusively. but that's not to argue it wasn't there . . .

j
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I think the Egyptians get dissed when discussions of the origins of Western 
Civilization take place. Akhenaton was the first montheist, and there's 
clearly a lot of Egyptian influence on the Old Testament, down to one of the 
Psalms apparently being an adaptation of Akhenaton's Hymn to Aton. Then 
there's the influence of Egyptian religion and magic on Orphism, Greek 
mystery cults, Plato...

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