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Sep 22, 2026
David Patrick HarryHOST
So if we're going to articulate... what is the Godhead in Judaism, it is certainly not Trinitarian.
David Patrick HarryHOST
Now, I've told you about Daniel Boyarin's theories and some of the other scholars who've articulated the dual powers or two powers theories in heaven, where during that Second Temple period, and even people like Philo of Judea, who was a Hellenistic Jew taking middle Platonic philosophy and applying it to his Judaism, seeing that the Logos was already present, Even though that's the case, Judaism, one of the few creedal things, one of the few creedal aspects of Judaism is that there's absolute unity.
David Patrick HarryHOST
It is a monotheistic, absolute monistic understanding of the Godhead.
David Patrick HarryHOST
It is not three persons in one essence.
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We actually
David Patrick HarryHOST
have that in a museum right now.
David Patrick HarryHOST
So here we get to the Hellenization of the Jews, Alexander and the Hellenistic world.
David Patrick HarryHOST
So what happens? Well, 332, you get one of the most successful military leaders in all of history.
Joel MokyrGUEST
That, you know, believe it or not, is a fairly rare thing in history.
Joel MokyrGUEST
Um, the classical antiquity, Greeks and Romans and, and Hellenistic civilizations and so on, didn't really have a concept of progress.
Joel MokyrGUEST
They basically, you know, uh, followed the rules that, that you see in the Bible, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, basically saying, you know, the generation cometh and generation goeth, and there's nothing new under the sun.
Joel MokyrGUEST
The notion that there is something new under the sun is actually quite revolutionary.
Katy KelleherGUEST
mean, they're wild because they have that like Tiffany blue and yellow and mustard.
Katy KelleherGUEST
You know, it really looks crazy to us because we're so used to thinking of like – These refined, classical, Hellenistic, beautiful ideals.
Katy KelleherGUEST
And it was all this, like, glittery white marble.
Katy KelleherGUEST
And, like, that's not real.
Tim GrayHOST
And every time he was called Levite, he'd remember that.
Tim GrayHOST
And I think, by the way, on that, you know, so many Jews who lived in the Hellenistic culture and were really working with people who were part of that Hellenistic, which is the Greco-Roman culture of the day, would take a Greco-Roman name as well as their Hebrew name.
Tim GrayHOST
And so the idea that it was Matthew is probably the name.
Tim GrayHOST
He went by with the people he worked with, with Herod and the Romans.
NickHOST
Galen's importance to the history of the ecstatic body does not arise from one correct discovery, but from its ability to construct an enormous physiological architecture in which anatomy, bodily faculties, heat, fluids, pneuma, nerves, reproduction, pleasure, and purpose appear to reinforce one another.
NickHOST
Writing in the second century of the common era, after medical study and travel through the eastern Mediterranean and a long career associated with imperial Rome, he inherited the disagreements of Hippocratic medicine, Aristotle, Hellenistic anatomy, and competing medical schools, then attempted to resolve those disagreements with a combination of animal dissection, clinical experience, philosophical argument, and teleological reasoning.
NickHOST
He did not merely ask what the reproductive organs looked like.
NickHOST
He asked why each structure existed, what useful function it served, and how its form demonstrated the ordered design of the living body.
Ryan O'DowdGUEST
But I think it's best to think of people highly skilled, literary skilled, who are toying with sayings on behalf of the king or, you know, whoever's in rule.
Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesHOST
When do you think they kind of settle into the form that we have in the Hebrew Bible today? I mean, Persian period, Hellenistic period, earlier?
Ryan O'DowdGUEST
Yeah, I mean, it's sort of like, yeah, it's a great question.
Ryan O'DowdGUEST
It's one of these books that just really evades any ability to tie it down too much.
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Ryan O'DowdGUEST
And I find a lot of the sayings are very applicable on the personal level, but they aren't phrased directed towards young women.
Ryan O'DowdGUEST
So it is like it just assumes that the attraction of the women is because the audience is young men.
Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesHOST
It really does strike me, though, you know, with the idea of... woman as knowledge, as wisdom, it strikes me as very Hellenistic.
Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesHOST
It really is very Greek, isn't it? Where female figures really come to the fore in Greek literature at this period as well.
Nathan GilmoreHOST
And
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
If we take that understanding, which I found convincing in 1970, then also it would explain why John of all Gospels, which is in many ways the most Hellenistic, should actually be duplicating the reference.
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
And the answer is, I think, just as Berger said, because there is an adaptation of an Aramaic stroke Hebrew word to Greek syntax.
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
It's an example of how it is that there can be an influence of Aramaic without it still being Aramaic.
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
To some extent, this is also, in the case of John's Gospel, instanced in the use of rabbi.
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
that here in this very Hellenistic gospel, Jesus is called Rabbi more frequently than elsewhere.
Bruce ChiltonGUEST
It's an indication of cultural awareness of the roots of the tradition.
Nathan GilmoreHOST
Well, and it's even trickier, just to go on this question for a moment, because the formal clergy position that we think of as Rabbi really hadn't arisen by the time of the composition of John.
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Of these two ideas, the first, which involved the seclusion of women and the harem system, was only partially applied in ancient Greece.
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It flourished in Ionia and at Athens during the great period of her history, but it never took root in Sparta or in the chief cities of Hellenistic civilisation.
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Its corollary, however, spread fatally from Asia to Greece and from Greece to Italy.
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It lasted for many centuries and tended to destroy all romantic love between the two sexes, and very often all the ordinary comfortable affection which may exist without romance between husband and wife.
Taylor CarmanHOST
Okay, okay.
Eric KaplanHOST
Okay, one of them is, so Epicurus, one of the Hellenistic heavy hitters of philosophy, had a four-part pharmacopoeia to make you happy.
Eric KaplanHOST
Right.
Eric KaplanHOST
And one of them was...
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