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To: Tax-chick
He can say that if he wants to. Doesn’t make it true ... no, not even if it’s in a book.

Thank you.

46 posted on 01/05/2015 5:29:14 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Professor J. Rufus Fears and Professor Elizabeth Vandiver - recordings of whose lectures I own - both believe an individual “Homer” is by far the most probable author. (Prof. Fears flatly asserts it, because he’s like that.) Iirc, the translator Robert Fagles also came to this conclusion. Of course, their belief does not establish the truth, either.

My family read the Book of Judges recently, and I noticed some repeated passages that reminded me of some of Homer’s stock sections. I wouldn’t be surprised if Judges was originally an oral composition, recited for the instruction of a religious assembly, perhaps. Charlton Heston would say so: he strongly emphasized the oral tradition aspect of what became “Scripture.”


49 posted on 01/05/2015 6:16:10 PM PST by Tax-chick (Start the new year right: donate to Free Republic and adopt a kitten!)
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