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I examine the analytical/digital aspects of the conceptions of God found in Judaism and Islam. I also compare this intellectual tradition with the more intuitional/analog theology found in Hellenism and Kabbalism.
The development of Judaic and Islamic monotheism—and written language itself—may have been related to the emergence of a purer form of the analytical capacities of the left cerebral hemisphere: serial/sequential processing was tailor-made for a linear historical sensibility, as well as for a reliance on logic, calculation, language and the aniconic “Word.”
While both Hellenism and Judaism were instrumental in setting civilization on the path to reason and law, it was the analytical conception of God as a single universal Judge that provided the foundational axiom for the moral logic of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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Blachowicz, J. (2023). An Empty Holy of Holies. In: The Bilateral Mind as the Mirror of Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14478-3_13
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