New archeological find

[David Blacklock]

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp ... rticleID=7

Solomon, Aristotle, & Socrates

DB

[Furstentum Liechtenstein]

Interesting...but probably artistic license.

I will have to wait for my copy of Biblical Archæology Review to come in the mail before commenting further.

FL

[Furstentum Liechtenstein]

Sorry to burst the bubble:

I couldn't wait for my copy of BAR to arrive, so I did a little research here at home:

-King Solomon lived circa 1000 BC
-Plato lived circa 428-348 BC
-Socrates was executed in 399 BC
-Aristotle lived 384-322 BC

None of these guys could have witnessed King Solomon's judgement of the two women who claimed to be the mother of the same baby.

So I was right: the painting is,

Interesting...but probably artistic license.

FL

[David Blacklock]

Hi FL,

For sure artistic license. I just tho't it was interesting that an artist of that time period would want to put the three of them together.

DB

[zoegirl]

Maybe it was the precursor to the patrons of the Rennaisance who would pay the artist to put their faces on the characters in the scene!!

I remember my art history teacher showing us the multiple paintings from that time period showing the lords and ladies who were snuck into the biblical scene.

[Furstentum Liechtenstein]

I received my copy of Biblical Archæology Review today!

The painting we are discussing on this thread is a secondary cover story along with Indiana Jones as Archæologist, The Aleppo Codex, and How Hezekiah's Tunnelers Met.

The article's writer concluded that, [Socrates' and Aristotle's] presence in the composition attests to the respect Greek philosophy could accord to Hebrew wisdom. Such a juxtaposition in art of wise men from the two civilizations was unprecedented, has rarely been done since, and is of great cultural and historical significance.

FL