Has anyone ever read this book? Good scholarship in the writing of the book?
Boman: "Greek Thought and Hebraic Thought": ISBN 0393005348
It has some serious philosophical/methodological problems. Surely there are differences, but it's hard to directly extract differences in thought from differences in language. Too much Whorf-Sapir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Too much Whorf-Sapir.
Is that Lt. Whorf from Startrek? [;)]
I have this book and read it years ago...what I remember getting out of it was the simple realisation that Hebrews thought a lot differently than the Greeks...which for me at the time was news. For simpletons like me, it can be helpful if only for this one aspect, although this much can be discerned from the title...lol!
George ... you're thinking of whorf-speed.
After reading a little of this thread and then the Amazon reviews, I ordered both (used). Having experienced dual languages in marriage, and then up on then reservation with the Navajo/Dineh', I sometimes think translation is at best naive. Getting somewhere in the ballpark is more like it.
George ... you're thinking of whorf-speed. After reading a little of this thread and then the Amazon reviews, I ordered both (used). Having experienced dual languages in marriage, and then up on then reservation with the Navajo/Dineh', I sometimes think translation is at best naive. Getting somewhere in the ballpark is more like it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worf
Thank you everyone for the information. I appreciate your responses.
I've read this book. Having quizzed a Jewish friend of mine who is a Professor of Linguistics at Adelaide University he thinks it has a lot of merit. He is an expert in biblical Hebrew.
Based on this thread, I ended up getting the hard copy. $5. I also ordered its counterpoint which appears to be crossing the Mojave desert at a snake's pace.
It's an interesting book. To be honest, I'm not that interested in the greek vs hebrew per se; greek sat over top a lot of differing cultlures of which one was 'greek'.
But the discussion on the hebrew is quite interesting. Although he gets into the details, he also organizes it by general subject area. Most of it is pretty obvious once he points it out. It's almost worth a second read just to cogitate on 'what it all means' once you're aware what to possibly look for.
I thought he was amusing when he was demonstrating the absence of imagery language in the OT (in our day, a scientist saying how something works vs an artist on how it looks). Anyway, he somehow got tangled up in Song of Solomon, and just couldn't let go. I'm pretty sure his wife was not an easy catch! He probably treasured her after his success winning her hand.
What is the name of the counterpoint book?
