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Reply To: After completing this course, do you agree with the statement, “Hebraic Thought is the greatest intellectual tradition in the history of humanity.” Why or why not?

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AvatarJarl Nischan
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Certainly sacred Scripture has been very important in the way you describe. But I am not sure that those contributions can be considered exclusively derived from “Hebraic intellectual tradition.” The wisdom books of the Bible have content that is remarkably like content from Greek or other intellectual traditions. The Israel that produced the Bible did not do so in isolation from its environment. In fact, the cultural content of Israel’s conquerors and foreign rulers appear in Hebraic culture, even in its common language.