Hebrew vs Greek Essay. I have to apologize upfront for the source. It’s actually from an appendix of an LDS/Mormon scripture study guide. The author is a Levinas scholar and professional philosopher. His main source is a book called Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek by Thorlief Bowman, but he’s also heavily drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
In it, he makes some pretty audacious claims about how ancient Greek people “thought” based off the structure of the Hebrew language that have since been called tenuous, unjustified leaps. I personally see the book and this essay as insight into the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, one of my favorite existential phenomenological philosophers. So even if ancient Hebrews did not think this way, Emmanual Levinas did, and it may have insight into the phenomenology of the “ethical structure of subjectivity” as he described his philosophical project.
Hebrew vs Greek Essay. I have to apologize upfront for the source. It’s actually from an appendix of an LDS/Mormon scripture study guide. The author is a Levinas scholar and professional philosopher. His main source is a book called Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek by Thorlief Bowman, but he’s also heavily drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Thought-Compared-Greek-Thorleif/dp/0393005348
In it, he makes some pretty audacious claims about how ancient Greek people “thought” based off the structure of the Hebrew language that have since been called tenuous, unjustified leaps. I personally see the book and this essay as insight into the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, one of my favorite existential phenomenological philosophers. So even if ancient Hebrews did not think this way, Emmanual Levinas did, and it may have insight into the phenomenology of the “ethical structure of subjectivity” as he described his philosophical project.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbyk5pejqn4cph8/Faulconer%20Hebrew%20Greek.pdf?dl=0T
Thank you!