The "Circle of the Earth"

There is an unsettling quality to remarks such as this. The condescending steriotype of the philosophical Greco-Roman counterposed to the brutal and primitive Semite seems little better than mild bigotry. This seems particularly ironic in light of the following:

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There is good evidence for the transmission of 'Babylonian Wissenschaft' through the medium of Aramaic. The introduction of this new scientific knowledge into Judah marked an intellectual revolution comparable in many ways to that which had taken place a little earlier in Greek-speaking Ionia, possibly (as we are beginning to appreciate from the works of Martin West and Walter Burkert) under the same oriental influence.

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- from The Bible as Book - The Hebrew Bible and the Judaean Desert Discoveries

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I wasn't addressing what you think you know or don't know, I was addressing your stereotypic counterposition of "educated Greeks" and "a bunch of folks off in the wilds of Asia Minor".[This message has been edited by ConsequentAtheist, 11-11-2003]

For what it's worth, I truly despise this type ignorant bigotry.