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    Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections: Book One
    Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections: Book One
    Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections: Book One
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    Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections: Book One

    By Richie Cooley

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    This booklet provides guided reading for the first book of Herodotus. Such topics as the rise of Cyrus and the fall of Babylon are detailed, with an emphasis on apologetics and eschatology. It has been written from a fundamental Christian perspective.

    This is the new, edited version.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichie Cooley
    Release dateApr 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463733684
    Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections: Book One
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      Gleanings From Herodotus Christian Reflections - Richie Cooley

      Gleanings from Herodotus

      Christian Reflections: Book One

      by Richie Cooley

      Licensed by:

      Richie Cooley (2019); [edited: (February and April, 2020)]

      Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International

      Email: richieacooley@live.com

      Table of Contents

      I. The Lesser Read Classic

      II. The Survey

      III. The Major Application

      IV. Citations

      V. Works by Me

      Before getting started, let’s review a few notes that are common to my writings…

      *British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

      *Old Testament Scripture is normally taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      *New Testament Scripture is normally taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT3). Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry. Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary Zeolla.

      *The terms LORD, GOD, and Hashem are all ways to describe the personal name of God, also rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

      *The ALT3 distinguishes between singular and plural second-person pronouns by means of an asterisk (*).

      *Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

      *As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

      *A section of this updated version has been taken from my discarded booklet, Bad Blood.

      Epigraph:

      No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons. -- Croesus

      I. The Lesser Read Classic

      A very probable pecking order can be mapped out when it comes to beneficial Bible study. First and foremost is the need to peruse the text itself (including original language studies). Following this, conservative commentaries are beneficial. Third on the list would then be supportive works of non-fiction/classic literature. This is a broad category, and under this umbrella would fall pertinent historical selections.

      When reaching for such a book, Christians generally opt for Josephus. Then, maybe Eusebius or Edersheim is sought out. Herodotus often doesn’t rank quite as high. This writing seeks to recommend Herodotus, as he has a lot to offer students of the Scriptures.

      A simple biographical blurb will help to establish this premise…

      …He was born around 490 BC in Halicarnassus, on the south-west coast of Asia Minor. He seems to have travelled widely throughout the Mediterranean world, including Egypt, Africa, the area around the Black Sea and throughout many Greek city-states, of both the mainland and the islands...He probably died at some time between 425 and 420 BC.¹

      So as you can see, he lived in the right places and in the right timeframe to be of interest to students of the Bible. He wrote just before the close of the Old Testament canon, around the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Malachi, Zechariah, and Haggai.

      Some of his chief interests were Babylon, Cyrus, the Kingdom of Medo-Persia, Egypt, and the Greeks. This should immediately get the attention of anyone who knows their Bible. The prophet Daniel was instructed—about a century before Herodotus—that there would be four kingdoms of eschatological interest: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Thus, Herodotus gives us insight into three of these vital empires. Even though he was too early for Rome, anyone who reads his work will still bump into New Testament topics, such as the cities of Smyrna and Sardis, etc.

      Digressing, another nice feature about Herodotus is that he was an entertaining guy. There are indeed long passages of proper-noun-barrages which are too typical of histories, but there are also a lot of fascinating stories mixed in throughout his writings. His talent as a storyteller is very endearing.

      So I just want to present a wee survey of his first major section (or book), providing a structured guided reading experience. I’ve sought to arrange the material here in a homiletical way, framing the selections

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