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[Alan Sondheim]

Judea was highly literate for only about 1600-2000 years beforehand. The
number of languages is enormous. Akkadian, Elamite, Ugaritic, Aramaic,
Hebrew, Assyrian, all intermingled. There were alphabetics from Phoenician
and other areas; Ugaritic, I believe, had a cuneiform alphabetic.
Palestine was always in the wider world; it was an enormous confluence of
cultures. Hittite and Egyptian met there for example. - Alan

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 integer at www.god-emil.dk wrote:

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> jesus. socrates. confucius. and buddha all come from a time
> in their native culture when several connected events were occurring.
> the introduction of literacy threatened the hegemony of traditional aristocracies
> and at the same time increasing commerce and the connectedness of society
> threatened the isolation and tranquility of single communities.
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> cities with their nervously permeable boundaries and fluctuating populations
> were an uncomfortable but essential part of the landscape within which the stories are set.
> looked at this way, each of the four, to say nothing of their contemporary
> and near contemporary competitors, idealized a countercultural set of ideas
> inimical to the hurly-burly of the thriving society of the time.
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> jesus represents judean isolation and separatism at a point when a succession
> of empires had definitively brought palastine into the wider world.
> confucius could not find a prince to make him sage-in-chief and neither
> could socrates' disciple plato. socrates was famously out of temper
> with his home city of athens.
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> all these figures make hay out of giving voice to sentiments which many
> can approve and few espouse. but there is a 2nd feature they hold in common,
> and that is their reception in latter centuries. each has been successful
> in a line of tradition that can be traced with some difficulty from their
> time to the present, but their image depends heavily on having been
> gradually rewritten and in the process assimilated to western cultural norms.
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