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Са́йрус Герцль Го́рдон — американский лингвист, специалист по языкам и культурам древнего Ближнего Востока, сторонник диффузионизма. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Июнь 1908 – 30. Март 2001
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“Just as Mycenaean civilisation is a development of the Minoan, so too the Philistines who came to Palestine from Caphtor were an offshoot of the same general Aegean civilisation. …until David's victories around 1000 B. C., the Philistines dominated the Hebrews, so that, militarily at least, the Davidic monarchy was the Hebrew response to the Philistine stimulus. …the Achaeans, Trojans, Philistines and Hebrews during the closing centuries of the second millennium belonged to the same international complex of peoples, sharing many conventions and institutions, specifically in military matters.”

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Cyrus H. Gordon

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

“Babylonian mathematics and astronomy have left an indelible impression on our exact sciences. We still call some of the planets by their Babylonian names in translation.”

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Introduction
Adventures in the Nearest East (1957)

“Homeric tradition has its own way of telling us that Minoan/Mycenaean civilisation was intertwined with the culture of the Semitic Phoenicians. Iliad 14: 321-322 makes Phoenix (named after the ancestor of the Phoenicians) the maternal grandfather of Minos. …Archaeology bears out early cultural connections between the two.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

“V. Bérard attributed the [Greece and Israel] links mainly to the role of the Phoenicians. P. Jensen explained matters through the diffusion of the Gilgamesh Epic. …but their one-sidedness and exaggeration brought them, and indeed the problem itself, into disrepute among critical scholars. The history of the problem has been ably documented by W. Baumgartner…”

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Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

“The fitness (physical and moral) of kings were serious matters, for they were believed to bring on a corresponding state of land and people.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

“The Conquest of Joshua could not have been a primitive assault, because a civilized land like Canaan with well-fortified cities could easily have repulsed an attack that was militarily naïve. …Spies were sent to search out the land and lay the groundwork.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

“Homer and Bible… towered above their predecessors and contemporaries.”

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Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

“The incorporation of… earlier sources does not mean that the Pentateuch or Former Prophets is the work of an editor who pasted together various docuements. Once we view the work as a whole, we see that it is a fresh creation though not a creatio ex nihilo. The same holds for Homeric Epic that has been subjected to the same kinds of modern literary criticism.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible

“By examining the pottery on any given site you can tell during which periods it has been occupied.”

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Источник: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab

“When the characters of epic and heroic saga are on significant missions, they are led divinely.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

“It was Yawhism that distinguished the two Hebrew nations from the other Canaanites and it was the great Hebrew prophets who transformed their little 'Canaanite' people into one of the great factors of world history.”

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Источник: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab

“The notion of a language of the gods appears in Sanskrit, Greek, Old Norse and Hittite cultures.”

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Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

“The incorporation of… earlier sources does not mean that the Pentateuch or Former Prophets is the work of an editor who pasted together various docuements. Once we view the work as a whole, we see that it is a fresh creation though not a creatio ex nihilo.”

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The same holds for Homeric Epic that has been subjected to the same kinds of modern literary criticism.
Источник: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible