Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek (The Library of History and Doctrine)

This is a book that, having once having once been read attentively, can never be forgotten. In time the student may indeed forget details of linguistics or esthetics or cosmology but he will always carry with him the basic characteristics of the thought of the Hebrews and of the Greeks and the ways in which the two types of thinking differ from each other. The chief distinction is a matter of epistemology: how we know things. The Hebrews experienced existence by hearing and perceiving, the Greeks by seeing. Dr. Boman states the idea in various ways. The Hebrews are concerned with material, with motion, with impressions and meanings, with time, with psychological understanding. The Greeks are concerned with form, with rest, with appearance, with space and place, with logical thinking.The theme is approached by several fields of inquiry which, like spokes in a wheel, converge upon the center. The most important of these is the study of the Hebrew and Greek languages - for the language of a people is, as Dr. Boman demonstrates an index to the nature of that people. The Hebrews and the Greeks thought and spoke differently because they were themselves extremely different.