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Shockingly ignorant book full of elementary errors, absence of scholarship
Murray seems to gerrymander what the West means and doesn't know what gerrymandering means: pick what works and call it the West. But worse, he is no scholar. Clueless mistakes.
Take one page, 588. It has the following errors. Under "National Origin", he misclassifies people:
+ AlKindi was Arabian not from Persia in "National Origin"
+Saadia Gaon was Egyptian/Babylonian Jew not from Persia in "National Origin"
+Manichaeus was Persian not from Rome in "National Origin"
+Plutarch was Greek not from Rome in "National Origin"
+Philo Judaeus was an Egyptian/Mizrahi Jew not from Greece in "National Origin"
+Porphirius was Phoenician not from Greece in "National Origin"
+Tertullian was a Berber not from Rome in "National Origin"
+Posidonius was Apamean Syrian not from Greece in "National Origin"
+Zeno was Cypriot Phoenician from Kition not from Greece in "National Origin"
+Maimonides was a Sephardic Jew not a Spaniard, and if Spaniard then Averroes also born in Cordova shd be so. And Seneca also born in Spain is deemed to be from Rome in "National Origin".
August 2019 · Books