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Understanding Hebraic Culture

Posted on: Mon, 2006-07-17 10:35 | By: matt | In:

Fag is a word with a strong meaning. If one calls someone a fag there is little question as to what they mean. Yet, less than a century ago the word fag had a totally different meaning. It meant a cigarette.

Understanding the idea someone is trying to convey with words is culture dependent. Back when I was in high school my English teacher had us read Shakespeare. Because, Shakespeare was from a different time with a different culture my English teacher had to explain quite a few things about the culture so we could understand what was going on.

The same thing applies to reading the Bible. The Bible is written from a Hebraic cultural perspective which is quite different from the western cultural perspective we view things today. To understand what is written in the Bible requires some knowledge of the Hebrew culture from the time it was written. Otherwise, it is easy to incorrectly understand what is written in the Bible.

This past weekend at the church service I attended the pastor taught about some of those differences and here is a short list outlining an idea followed by the difference in how the Hebrews and western culture view them: