“My thoughts are (not) your thoughts.”: transposed second-order thinking in the Hebrew Bible
Following 19th-century distinctions between Hellenism and Hebraism, many popular 20th-century histories of Western philosophy assigned the intellectual world of the Hebrew Bible to a twilight zone between late mythological and early philosophical ways of thinking. Partly in response to this, researc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Unisa Press
2018
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| In: |
Journal for semitics
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hebrew language
/ Hellenism
/ Thinking
/ Reflection (Philosophy)
/ Hebrewism
/ Myth (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Greek Philosophy
B Hebrew Bible B Second-order thinking |
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| Summary: | Following 19th-century distinctions between Hellenism and Hebraism, many popular 20th-century histories of Western philosophy assigned the intellectual world of the Hebrew Bible to a twilight zone between late mythological and early philosophical ways of thinking. Partly in response to this, research in Semitic languages during that time began to include comparative-linguistic arguments hoping to demonstrate radical structural incommensurability between Hebrew and Greek ways of thinking. In the latest trend in the associated research, a multi-disciplinary dialogue has been initiated on the subject of “second-order thinking” within the ancient Near East “before” or “outside” Greek philosophy. In this article, the author aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion by suggesting that Biblical Hebrew as religious language already presupposes an intricate variety of transposed second-order thinking. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25159/1013-8471/4217 HDL: 10520/EJC-1228264140 |