Old Testament Scholarship and the Religious-Philosophical Sense of "Life" in Ordinary Language

The word "life" appears in a variety of contexts in Old Testament (OT) scholarship. Included are the use of non-technical senses from ordinary language and the associated folk-philosophical assumptions implicit therein. This article investigates whether and to what extent the recent histor...

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Main Author: Gericke, Jaco (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: SA ePublications 2023
In: Old Testament essays
Year: 2023, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 265-284
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Life / Spirituality / Theology / Old Testament
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
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Summary:The word "life" appears in a variety of contexts in Old Testament (OT) scholarship. Included are the use of non-technical senses from ordinary language and the associated folk-philosophical assumptions implicit therein. This article investigates whether and to what extent the recent history of interpretation reflects what the philosopher of religion Don Cupitt refers to as the "turn to life" in everyday speech. To test the hypothesis, samples of the relevant data are selected from the related second-order discourses of popular Bible translations and prominent theologies of the OT. The analysis shows strong correlations in terms of quantitative and qualitative conceptual-historical diachronic variability. Thus, it is concluded that the emergent quasi-religious sense of "life" in ordinary language is also a supervening folk-philosophical concept, concern and category in contemporary OT scholarship. https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2023/v36n1a15
ISSN:2312-3621
Contains:Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2023/v36n1a15