Book Review

Only slightly less pointless are questions such as who wrote the Upanishads, or the Odyssey, or what Christians call the Old Testament? In these cases, we confront more proximate creations; but, although archaeologists and philologists, theologians, historians and antiquarians of all sorts can supply helpful hints to anyone interested in such obscure intellectual quests, the best they can do is offer informed speculations, the proofs for which are rarely found.