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HTCG 03e
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart c: The Time of History Boman takes a couple of pages to warn us that the western notion of time is quite confused. … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, time and space, western epistemology
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HTCG 01g
Chapter 1 continues. Section E: Collective Concepts and Ideas Part 2: Platonic Parallels First, a brief reminder here. I learned from linguistic experts that Greek, as with other western languages, tends to see language as a conveyance of content. Words … Continue reading
HTCG 01f
Chapter 1 continues. Section D: The Word Part 2: The Word in Greek Thought Boman avoids the bigger question of “word” in Greek thought and restricts his explanation to what he considers the correlations with Hebrew. Thus, the only Greek … Continue reading
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HTCG 01c
We continue with Chapter 1, section A. Part 5: The Dynamic Character of the World Here I am compelled to reflect upon rather than interpret what Boman says. He points out that a major reason the Hebrews consider the earth … Continue reading
HTCG 01a
Note: Each chapter of the book is outlined into sections, which are in turn outlined in smaller parts. Chapter 1: Dynamic and Static Thinking — Again, the issue stands on how any separation between thinking and language is artificial. There … Continue reading
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Tagged Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, Thorleif Boman, western epistemology
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HTCG Introduction
It’s this blog’s turn to review a book: Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek by Thorleif Boman (HTCG). The book was published first in German back in 1954; this is the second edition translated into English around 1960. The copy I’m … Continue reading
Resistance in Love
It is the nature of Hebrew language to be indicative. It was never supposed to be legalistic; that was a perversion introduced with Hellenism after the conquest of Alexander the Great (323 BC). Rabbis began absorbing the delirium of human … Continue reading
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Tagged blood guilt, Covenant of Noah, Hebrew language, resistance
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Lust for Sex or Control?
When your conscious awareness is heart-led, you will find that a lot of moral truth lies dormant until provoked by the need of the moment. It’s a sense that, if the right question comes along, the Spirit of the Lord … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, English translations, heart-led, Hebrew language, Hebrew Scripture, men versus women
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Why We Teach Biblical Law
Among the many different ways we might formulate an answer to the question in the title, there’s one that really matters: keeping morality conscious. The power of human coercion is emotion. The negative emotions that bind us all tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, Biblical Law, emotional manipulation, epistemology, heart-led, Hebrew language, languages, legalism, oppression
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