До Библии. Общая предыстория греческой и еврейской культуры

Cyrus G. Gordon, professor of Middle Eastern sciences at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, argues on a rich factual basis that Greek and Jewish cultures are in many ways parallel developing structures that arose on a common Eastern Mediterranean foundation. Archaeological discoveries, especially textual tablets, and knowledge of Hebrew and Greek allowed the scientist to identify the common heritage of the II millennium BC Hellas and Israel. Comparison of Homer's epic poem about the Mycenaean age and the Hebrew text covering the period of the conquest of Canaan and the reign of David, having a common ground both in a geographical and chronological cultural sense, reveals the true traditions of the so-called heroic age of the Eastern Mediterranean. Translator Tsyplenkov A.S.