Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel (New ed)

Did the Hebrew mind work differently from those of people in the Western tradition of civilization?

This long-discredited question still lingers in biblical studies.

Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel approaches the topic of the Israelite mind from a new direction, exploring how the biblical texts themselves, especially Proverbs and Deuteronomy, describe the working of the mind.

It demonstrates that the much-discussed role of memory in the Bible is just one part of a general understanding that in the realm of 'knowledge' God and humanity are rivals.