Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek by Thorleif Boman

Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek Thorleif Boman ebook
ISBN: 9780393005349
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Page: 226
Format: pdf

I thought they were great–and they were–but they were doomed to ultimate mediocrity if employed in our home as an entire solution for a gospel based curriculum, because there was a foundational problem with all of them. In order to understand the ancient Hebrew culture in which the Tenack was written in, we must examine some of the differences between Hebrew and Greek thought. Though it's the same Hebrew thought underlying the Greek in both LXX and the NT, we tolerate inconsistency in the translation of the NT tainted by presupposed theology; then we wonder why Christian's argue incessantly about residual theological issues (that wouldn't be issues if translation was approached consistently). Judaism was the first antimaterialism movement. I paraphrase this section, particularly the last example, from Thorlief Bowman, Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek. In comparing the differences between the Hebraic and Greek learning models I realized that what I wanted was to teach my children to be something, not just try to pour knowledge into their heads. First, the very fact that Spanish was a living language for me meant that I was much more conscious of its subtleties and connotations than I could be of comparable nuances in Greek and Hebrew. For the Jew, the world of words is just as real and even more powerful than the things that exist only in the material world” (Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek, 1960). The Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. In 8:7 the King of Assyria is compared to the strong waters of the Euphrates flooding over the banks into all the channels. Hebrew education focused on relationship. Some differences between the Hebrew way of thinking and our own.