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Eschatology in the Old Testament

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

G. A. F. Knight
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The Hebrews had an ineradicably “whole” view of life and the universe. We Westerners, whose educational system rests upon the assumption of the “Greeks” that matter and spirit are separate entities, find it hard to think as the Old Testament thinks. Plato was not the first of the philosophers to dissociate the realm of ideas from the realm of things, since some of the Ionian philosophers before him had already conceived that truth is the truth of propositions. One result of such a dichotomy was the conception that matter or things are not so important or even so real as are ideas; it is the study of the world of ideas, or of the world of spiritual values, which primarily leads mankind to a knowledge of God.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1951 , pp. 355 - 362
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1951

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