By now many of you will have learned of Russell Gmirkin’s sudden passing. I am still trying to process the shock. I was privileged to have had frequent communications with him in the past few years and he was on my short list of people I had hoped to meet in person. His website: https://russellgmirkin.com/
His work dug more deeply into the thesis that the Hebrew Bible was a product of Hellenistic times. He was highly respected by other pioneering academics like Thomas L. Thompson and Niels Peter Lemche. I covered his some of his main published ideas here:
- Russell Gmirkin
- Gmirkin: Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts
- Plato and the Hebrew Bible (Gmirkin)
- Plato and the Biblical Creation Accounts (Gmirkin)
- Gmirkin: Plato and Creation of Hebrew Bible
- Gmirkin: Berossus and Genesis
He had just completed a manuscript for a new work that many of us are looking forward to engaging with.
There is a tribute to Russell on youtube. I have not watched it yet. I am still trying to process my own grief before I do.
There is also a gofundme page to assist Russell’s wife, Carolyn Tracy.
This post is unfortunately a belated response, I know. I was away in far north Queensland when a notice sent to inform me never arrived. It took me some days for bizarre communications breakdowns to be rectified.