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Casaubon dates the Hermetica to the Christian era

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Isaac Casaubon shows from their language and ideas that the Hermetic treatises are not the work of an Egyptian sage of the age of Moses but of writers of the Christian era.

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Sources
  • A. Grafton, "Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983) 78–93