This article studies the function of the ‘fear of God’ idea in the book of Job. It is argued that, despite the difference in terminology, the ‘fear of God’ is equivalent to the ‘fear of the LORD’ concept of Proverbs. The location of the motif in the final form of the book of Job suggests that the ‘fear of God’ is not being proposed as the answer to Job’s dilemma. Rather, Job is one who maintain...

During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...

I would like to suggest that this sequence of violations may reveal the hand of the final editor of this primary history— Genesis through Kings— and reinforces its overarching theme: The violation of God's law, step by step, commandment by commandment, results in Israel's destruction. [See a fuller presentation in the author's The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 19...

the present article is to explain ibn sina’s view on the god’s knowledge of things by rational-analytic method. peripatetic philosophers including ibn sina have used the expression representation (irtisam) in discussing divine foreknowledge of things. commentators and critics of avicenna’s works had not the same interpretation of this expression but had given different understandings of it so t...

A. Cosmological proof of the Existence of God In the 3rd Meditation, Descartes attempts to prove that God (i) exists, (ii) is the cause of the essence of the meditator (i.e. the author of his nature as a thinking thing), and (iii) the cause of the meditator's existence (both as creator and conserver, i.e. the cause that keeps him in existence from one moment to the next). The proof that God exi...

John McCarthy, famous for his role in the development of time-sharing, for inventing the computer language LISP, for his foundational work in theory of computation, and for his founding of the fields of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, was concerned for much of his career with what he termed drosophilae: small challenge problems that highlighted characteristic aspects of in...

People the world over know about your academic and medical accomplishments. I would like to share with your colleagues, the Mel that in the 1980s I got to know and spend time with outside the laboratory (although science and how science can benefit “your” babies was just a breath away in anything we did). The time I really got to talk with Mel outside the Harvard confines was when I first roome...

The decline in renal function seen in a variety of pathological states is associated with an increase in the number and changes in the protein synthetic activity of tubular interstitial cells. However, the relationship between expansion of the interstitial compartment (interstitial fibrosis) and loss of renal epithelial tubules and capillaries remains unclear. Interstitial pathologies accompany...