66
Ed Metzler
in this mystified form
that they were to inspire the
philosophy of future
generations, both in Israel and
abroad.5)
A. The Mosaical Tablets of the
Law as the Jewish Blueprints of Pythagorean
Philosophy
§
3. According to Hermippus
of Smyrna Pythagoras owed all of
his theories to the Jews.6) Best known
are the Pythagorean theorem
and
––––––––––––––––
cultural and genetic influx
from Israel must be expected,
especially among the Ionian Greeks on
the Mediterranean coast of present-day
Turkey, reached when
sailing northward along
the shore from Israel.
An appalling thought for
a modern philhellenic
anti-Semite, who would prefer
to see Greek culture
arising out of nowhere as an
original creation by the Aryan
genius of a racially pure Greece, the
light of Israel which
was shining upon the
gentile world as an Or
la-Goyim (Isaiah 49, 6) is readily
obscured by the assumption of
the so-called Dark
Ages of Greece (ca.
1200–700 B. C.
E.), covering some 250
years before and after
King Solomon's reign, see below
Notes 24 and 26.
5) The deification of the Tablets of
the Law resulted from their
accommodation in the temple
almost 500 years after
Moses had made them,
thus idolizing the very same
stone that prohibits idol worship,
and naming Israel's god
YaHUH after its first
two words, cf. Ed
Metzler, Discovering Mosaistics
(N. 1) pp. 139–46.
6) See Encyclopaedia Judaica (German
1931) vol. 7 at 665.
|
|
6
 
|