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He’s got like hundreds of hours of lectures spanning a 50 year career.
Greece, Ahura Mazda, bhudda, Jesus, mythology, jungian shadow work he touches on just about all of it eventually.
It’s in this body of work I came across things he’d translated from Jesus in the original Greek. As the Old Testament was like 2 thousand years before the new. We talk about Jesus the way he talked about Moses etc.
Okay. So if you can’t link a lecture where he is specifically making the argument that Hesiod’s Theogony is an influence on the authors of the Bible (which ones? which books?) can you clarify or make specific the connections he draws between the Theogony and specific texts of the Bible?
Like, if anything, the argument you’re making here is more that the “collective unconscious” influenced the Bible.
Which sure, Jungians say that the “collective unconscious” influences everything, but that is meaningless here - you’re making the specific claim that Hesiod influenced the writing of some books of the Bible (which? it wasn’t written by one person, and it wasn’t all written at once). You are also making the secondary claim that Watts also made this claim. Please back these claims up, rather than gesturing vaguely at multiple unrelated religious traditions.
Edit: also, check that wiki link for the timeline of the Bible. “As the Old Testament was like 2 thousand years before the new.” is entirely incorrect.
Thanks