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June 1, 2005
Blogging Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
James R. Davila has an informative article on the Society of Biblical Literature website entitled, "Assimilated to the Blogosphere: Blogging Ancient Judaism." But it covers blogging early Christianity also. Davila focuses on how Judaism and early Christianity blogs provide the same corrective influence "as major political blogs" that "catch the media in errors and sometimes get them to correct them." He has a host of great links and some very interesting examples. One that I had not heard before concerns a New York Times article from December of 2004 claiming that Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great in Hebrew and Babylonian!
The paragraph in question reads,
Alexander grew up in the Macedonian court, which once welcomed Euripides the playwright and Pindar the poet. There he met visitors from all over the known world: Persia, Egypt, Crete, Sicily and the Dardanelles. Philip II hired Aristotle to tutor Alexander at age 14 in Greek, Hebrew, Babylonian and Latin, rhetoric and justice. From him Alexander probably acquired his lifelong love of learning and openness to foreign cultures. [emphasis added]
Davila debunks this and other such errors on his own blog, PaleoJudaica. I am now adding it to my blogroll. Good stuff.
Posted by Duane Smith at June 1, 2005 10:07 AM | Read more on Religion |
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