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Originally Posted by Chili
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Originally Posted by bacht
Well, the Bible itself can be seen as a cultural artifact, a collection of stories and poems describing Iron Age life throught the eyes of writers. The Jews had no representational art to speak of, so their artistic impulses were channelled mainly into their literature. Their architecture and music are mostly lost to us.
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Correct . . . and is why the measure of truth is found in the beauty of artistic expression, which then tells us someting about the prosperity of the tribe. I greatly admire Judaism for their literary complexity but I am not able to fully rationalize their metaphor because I am not a Jew. |
The Egyptians were the opposite: they left a huge legacy of architecture and artistic material, but their literature was never adopted by Europeans (other than occultists).
09-26-2008, 10:54 AM
