The bible was originally reduced to writing in Greek as part of a Greek Cultural preservation project in Alexandria around 130 BCE. There is a prior entry that discusses this project in more detail, but the apocryphal (sadly untrue, like the story of Martin Luther nailing his 70 something thesis on a church door) story is that when the 40 rabinical authors were brought together they all wrote the same thing, the truth is their writings made up 40 different books which were put into one which was named after the 40. That is, the word bible means books, and the different authors contributed to this name. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it for now because it's otherwise irrelevant to this writing. Prior to this it existed only as an oral tradition, dating as it were back to the beginning of time in fits and starts.
Zeno of Elia (who I've called Zora (after Zora Neal Hurston of all people!) because my mind is apparently made of mush) was alive around 450 BCE. Where are my proof readers? Anyway, they entries are all changed now. My apologies to Zeno, Zora and all those who should have been totally confused by this transposition.
What's the significance of this?
Well, the Greek revivalists who saved the torah probably had all Zeno's paradoxes a mere 300 years after they were written. They're mostly gone now. So it's entirely likely that the creation myth took these into account, in editorial conditions if nothing else. Hence, there reasons that the creation story seems to fit so well with non-linear time theory is that Zeno's (not Zora's!) paradoxes probably existed at that time and would have lent a certain flavor to those who were influenced by the concept of existence without dimension or time.
In my next entry we will take the 3 types of clock time discussed earlier and their function on time and space and discuss how these would fit into the creation story; not because any of this matters, but just because its interesting.
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