Thursday, June 19, 2008

History Ancient and Modern

Undeception has shared a great chart (from Lawrence Boadt's book Reading the Old Testament) contrasting the aims and methods of ancient Hebrew historians with those of modern Western ones:

Posted by James F. McGrath at 12:15 PM
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1 comments:

Angie Van De Merwe said...

It is my understanding that in the development of man's understanding, his intellectual capacity furthers his understanding of his "commitments". Knowledge cannot be absolute in all of the disciplines, NOR can it be absolute,even within one discipline, because of the many theories "out there".
Therefore, in historical science, we have understandings of people groups, facts about countries and their development into nation-states, but the modern rendition is not the rendition of ancient texts. The modern rendition is linerar in understanding, while the ancients didn't view "life" that way. That is why the "salvation/history" is a modern paradigm and has been proof-texted upon the text.

June 19, 2008 1:57 PM

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