ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has significant implications for the study and understanding of the Bible. From the structural, establishing correspondences between Greek myth and both sets of narratives, to the ontological, this study has opened several doors that need to be opened wider. In the case of the Hebrew Bible, it is clear that ancient Israel had very early, sustained, diachronic knowledge of multiple interfaces with the various stages of Greek culture from the Mycenaean period onward. Perhaps most important for this book, as author established in the introduction, is that the agents felt free to import and add narratives to those in their preexisting core, generated indigenously. As this book demonstrates, the prophecies in Revelation function in the same way as those in the Aeneid, and in the deus ex machina appearances in Euripidean tragedy.
