Animals Calling Out to Heaven: In Support of the Hypothesis of an Alexandrine Egyptian Connection to the Animals Praising Heaven in Pereq Shirah (A Chapter of Hymns). Some Evidence from Egypt’s Greek Magical Papyry
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The present study draws attention to some evidence from Egypt’s Greek Magical Papyri, concerning animals giving praise to some deity. In his very important dissertation of 1966, Malachi Beit-Arié suggested that the Hebrew text Pereq Shirah (A Chapter of Hymns), in which animal kinds are listed and each utters some verse from Scripture in praise of Heaven, may have been inspired by Alexandrine ideas that are also in the background of the Phylologus. The Egyptian texts in Greek which I point out appear to make this hypothesis more congent indeed.
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