sources: SRC_VAN_BLADEL_ARABIC_HERMES

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_VAN_BLADEL_ARABIC_HERMES Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science (Oxford University Press, 2009)   secondary scholarship Definitive scholarly study of how Hermes Trismegistus entered Islamic intellectual tradition as the prophet Idris; traces the Idris=Hermes identification through Jabir ibn Hayyan, al-Kindi, and Sabian literature; documents the convergence of Enoch, Hermes, and Idris across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition

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