We shall have to bear in mind that the gulf separating classical Israel (of the great Prophets) from classical Greece (of the scientists and philosophers) must not be read back into the heroic age when both peoples formed part of the same international complex.

— Cyrus H. Gordon The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965)

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