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In his Two-Edged Sword , John L. McKenzie shows (p. 13)
how Biblical studies in the twentieth century have abandoned
the concept of the lineal, homogeneous structure of Scriptural
narration:
Modern control and use of natural forces was not known
to the Hebrews, nor did the wildest fancy dream of
anything like it. . . . The ancient Hebrews were
prephilosophical; the most ordinary patterns of modern
thought were unknown to them. Logic as a form of
mental discipline they lacked. Their language is the speech
of the simple man who sees motion and action rather
than static reality, static reality as concrete rather than
abstract.
In our legal world words are carefully reduced to