
By Seth L. Sanders, Jonathan Ben-Dov
ISBN-10: 147982304X
ISBN-13: 9781479823048
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See further my essay, “Physiognomy, Initiation and Rank in the Qumran Community,” in Geschichte—Tradition—Reflexion: Festschrift für Martin Hengel zum 70. Geburtstag (ed. P. Schäfer, H. Cancik and H. Lichtenberger; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1996), I 385-394. 21 22 2. The Jews and Natural Science 35 relationship of character to physical type, and it too anticipated certain aspects of modern science, particularly in the field of psychology. The calendar in 1 Enoch 72 provides on instructive example of this Second Temple Jewish science.
Cancik and H. Lichtenberger; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1996), I 385-394. 21 22 2. The Jews and Natural Science 35 relationship of character to physical type, and it too anticipated certain aspects of modern science, particularly in the field of psychology. The calendar in 1 Enoch 72 provides on instructive example of this Second Temple Jewish science. 23 It fits admirably the pragmatic definition of science which I proposed earlier. It clearly attempts to uncover the laws of nature (in this case those governing the sun’s motion through the heavens during a solar year), and it provides a rather sophisticated model which integrates in a reasonably satisfactory way a number of precise observations of natural phenomena (see Figure 1).
The presence of physiognomy comes as something of a surprise, but is should be remembered that physiognomy was a science in antiquity, every bit as much as dream interpretation. g. phrenology) it remained a ‘science’ down to the nineteenth century. 22 Like dream interpretation, the more sophisticated forms of physiognomy appear to have been based on observation of the See, for example, Genesis Rabbah 4:4 and 6:8. See further my essay, “Physiognomy, Initiation and Rank in the Qumran Community,” in Geschichte—Tradition—Reflexion: Festschrift für Martin Hengel zum 70.
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