Hi .  Good to hear from you.

I suggest you read the Noah book carefully, especially the last
chapter. Also the appendix.

The Sacred Scriptures, as Paul calls them, claim throughout to be the
Word of our Creator. Those who deny this have never examined them.

Many are turned off by the many man-made creeds of Christendom, and
rightfully so. Today a pall covers the Scriptures. I refer to it as
Athena’s cloak. The key is not to look away from Christendom, but to
pull off the cloak and look beneath it to the truth that has been
covered. Revelation in Greek is apo-kalupsis, literally an uncovering.
We need God’s revelation to get to the truth. More details on this here:

www.atruergod.com

The Concordant Publishing Concern offers “The Greek Text” of the so-
called New Testament, based on the oldest extant manuscripts. They
also have a book for learning Greek called “The Greek Elements.” If
you get nothing else, you must get THE CONCORDANT LITERAL NEW
TESTAMENT WITH KEYWORD CONCORDANCE.  If the Scriptures are indeed
inspired by God in the Hebrew and Greek, then translation is
everything.  www.concordant.org

I was able to decode the meaning of Greek art, by God’s grace, because
I took Genesis seriously. All truth, scientific and otherwise, is
founded on God and His word.

Hope this helps.  Nancy and I look forward to seeing you again.

Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. (bob)

May 2010, wrote:

Dear Mr. Johnson,
It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife yesterday.
How nice to have met someone who has studied and written books about
the art and origins of Greek mythology/religion while reading an
ancient history book myself!

Thank you very much for the book that you gave me. I have already
read a few pages of it and browsed your website. Your thesis (as I
understand it), that the figures depicted in Ancient Greek art,
rather than characters in “Greek mythology,” are actually the same
historical figures that are described in the Torah and
representations of which are found in other ancient Near East
cultures, is interesting. I had heard that the great flood described
in Sumerian literature corresponded somewhat with the account of the
Great Flood given in the Bible, but never before that the Greeks
memorialized the same events and people. Without a doubt, this
perspective on the Greeks, their art, and their myths is very
different than that which is commonly proposed.

As I mentioned yesterday, ancient history is one of the topics which
I am studying this summer. Some of the others are Spanish, French,
Latin, and music theory. I am also considering beginning to study
Greek – do you have any suggestions or comments on this endeavor,
since you yourself have studied the Greeks? I am starting with the
earliest civilizations, Sumer, Akkadia, Assyria, and Egypt, and will
be continuing chronologically to the Greeks and Romans.
Thus, the beginning of this summer was a splendid time for us to meet.

Do you have any advice on how to study ancient history, e.g., which
themes to pay special attention to, which books to use, and which
eras and city-states to study in depth?

Thank you again for your book.