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To: GonzoGOP
What you say is true about the Iliad.

However, Homer was not primarily an historian, but a poet. He was not so concerned with getting the details right, but evoking the Trojan heroism/pathos regarding events which took place 400 years earlier.

Did Moses have the same intents as Homer? Judging from the text, I think Moses for the most part was much more intent on transmitting historical events rather than pathos.

47 posted on 03/07/2012 10:09:08 AM PST by what's up
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To: what's up
Did Moses have the same intents as Homer? Judging from the text...

Judging from the text, I don't think Moses cared one bit about the Trojans or their heroism.

(It's possible that the "Javan" of Genesis 10.2 and 10.4 means the Ionians = Greeks.)

70 posted on 03/07/2012 1:47:57 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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