The thesis of this book is simply that Greek and Hebrew civilisations are parallel structures built upon the same East Mediterranean foundation. ...the evidence is so abundant that our problem is one of selection and arrangement.

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

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