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To: pharmamom

lol, me too. To understand the Torah one needs a very deep understanding of the Hebrew language, perhaps we can agree on that?


130 posted on 02/05/2005 2:11:26 PM PST by D Edmund Joaquin (Mayor of Jesusland)
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To: D Edmund Joaquin

Of course. But one can also use a basic understanding of anthropology. It is only since the Englightenment that humans have concerned themselves so deeply with the workings of the physical world. We ask ourselves different kinds of questions now than we did 5000 years ago. The ancient Jews were above all interested in clarifying what kind of divinity would create this world and human beings, as well as what their special relationship to that divinity was. We call that concern metaphysics now, and it has become a second-class citizen in a world dominated by scientific inquiry into the material world. Nonetheless, we must not make the mistake of projecting our mindset onto the ancient Jews or early Christians. Or even Western humans pre-Enlightenment.


142 posted on 02/05/2005 2:19:34 PM PST by pharmamom ("You treat that cat better than you treat me." - the husband)
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