The Parthenon Code: Mankind's History in Marble (Hardcover)

by Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. (Author) "Ancient Greek artists communicated in a universal language that we can understand-once we see that the early events described in the Book of Genesis hold..." (more)
Key Phrases: transfigured serpent, serpent transfigured, shield band panel, Garden of the Hesperides, Book of Genesis, British Museum (more...)

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A startling testament to the validity of Scripture. -- James R. Coram, Unsearchable Riches Magazine, June 2004

Original, seminal, ground-breaking, unforgettable, and highly recommended. -- James A. Cox of the Midwest Book Review, May 2004

This is the book the thinking Christian community has been waiting for. -- Ian T. Taylor, Creation Moments, May 2004

Product Description
The Parthenon Code reveals, for the first time in 2,000 years, the meaning of the seven sculptural themes on Athena's temple. A simple, but hidden artists' code expressed on vase-paintings and the Parthenon sculptures, leads to the astonishing truth that Greek myth/art chronicles in great detail the reestablishment of the way of Kain (Cain) after the Flood.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Solving Light Books (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970543832
• ISBN-13: 978-0970543837
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #287,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Genuine Ancient Artists' Code Deciphered, April 15, 2005

By	Kallikrates - See all my reviews

The Greeks summarized who they were, where they came from, and what they believed on the east pediment of the Parthenon. In the last hundred pages of the book, Mr. Johnson takes the reader through the computer reconstruction of the figures there based on the physical evidence, one extant sculpture at a time. Holmes Bryant's computer reconstructions are magnificent (Click on "Search Inside" "Back Cover" to see his reconstruction of the Three Fates from the left side of the pediment, and click on "Front Cover" to see the Hesperides from the right side).
Reading those hundred pages gave me the same feeling as putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The author supplies all the pieces of the puzzle so you can evaluate his reconstruction for yourself. When you have finished THE PARTHENON CODE, you will understand what the Greeks were telling us in their myth/art, and on the sculptures of Athena's magnificent temple. Mr. Johnson has deciphered a genuine ancient artists' code.

20 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind-stimulating, and strongly recommended read for students, August 11, 2004

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

In The Parthenon Code: Mankind's History In Marble, author Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. draws upon his own unique approach to combine elements of mythology, religion, spirituality, art, antiquarian classics, and world history to craft one of the most original, engaging, thoughtful and thought-provoking works advocating a kind of "alternative history" explanation for a post-Biblical Deluge association of Greek pagan themes and symbolism with the Hebrew biblical account of Noah's flood and its aftermath. The revelation that the Greeks knew Noah as Nereus and referred to him as the "Wet One" and built the Parthenon to celebrate a "victory" over Noah and his God, and in honor of the serpent-worshiping Eve of Genesis, makes The Parthenon Code an iconoclastic, mind-stimulating, and strongly recommended read for students of religion and Hellenic history!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick, fascinating, plausible and memorable value., April 10, 2006

By	spindleshanks "TDCofG" (Spencer, MA USA) - See all my reviews

I finished reading this book this week, liked the way the material was presented and particularly appreciated the use of many original sources. I found Johnson's thesis generated many connections for me. For instance, his original reference to Cain as the lame god Hephaistos, cast down from Olympus made me think how, in a very real sense, Cain was crippled by the mark placed upon him by God, concerning which he was surely downcast. Further, it particularly made me appreciate the correlative work of Christ in making the lame to walk.
I thought this work plausible and obvious in that forehead slapping way and regretted that classical mythology has no place in evangelical academia.
In the end, one is left wondering why, if the Hesperides' Garden/Eden was the idyllic original habitat of man, but the actions of Hera/Eve resulted in its forfeiture and estrangement from Deity, how then, was the Enlightening a boon to man?
It interests me that all of mankind, by hook or by Shepherd's crook, seeks a return to Paradise, but must content itself with knowledge, since the natural man is very far from Eden indeed. As Robert Johnson rightly said, on the journey home one must pass through a bloody field east of Eden.
This is a wonderful and provocative book and I would be very interested to read anything else he writes.