> the jews compiled their various scattered religious texts in alexandria to create the pentateuch and had also adapted some earlier greek works to supplement it. a striking number of legal parallels are found between the pentateuch and athenian laws, and specifically with those found in plato's laws of ca. 350 bce. constitutional features in biblical law, athenian law, and plato's laws also contain close correspondences. several genres of biblical law, including the decalogue, are shown to have striking parallels with greek legal collections, and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with greek literature. i am not claiming that their earliest religious texts had been written in alexandria. but that they where compiled into the pentateuch by jews living in alexandria. they supplemented it with greek material.
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