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HTCG 03d
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart a: The Identity of Consciousness Western minds think of space as the place we exist. Time plays the same role for the Hebrews. … Continue reading
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HTCG 03c
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 1: The Time of Heavenly Luminaries Subpart c: Time-rhythms rather than Time-cycles or Time-lines We can be sure that humans and even animals sense the rhythms of … Continue reading
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HTCG 03b
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 1: The Time of Heavenly Luminaries Subpart a: The Uselessness of the Western Concept of Time Boman correctly notes that westerners are notorious for flatly ignoring any … Continue reading
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HTCG 03a
We are about halfway through this book, folks. It’s always a good thing to stand up and defend your position against better educated people. Boman is not stupid, but he has his own biases. Mine have been discussed here often … Continue reading
HTCG 02c
Chapter 2 continues. Section C: The Impression of Things When a Hebrew text does address any sensory experience of smell, taste or color, we can usually pick up on the meaning. If we can make adjustments inside our minds about … Continue reading
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HTCG 02b
Chapter 2 continues. Section B: The Impression of Men Part 3: The Idea of Beauty Boman starts off here with a word-salad. Any attempt to discuss beauty is very challenging. We all know what it is when we see it, … 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 01b
We continue with Chapter 1, section A. Part 3: Logical “Being” in Hebrew Boman had previously mentioned the Hebrew noun clause that was often used in a place where we expect some kind of verb “to be”. The noun clause … 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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