I. Values and Human Activity:
Middle East: Being > Doing > Being-in-becoming
A. Being (spontaneous response to cues)
Matt 11:16-19
Matt 12:1-8
Matt 12: 9-14
Matt 26:47-65//Mark 14:47//Luke 22:50//John 18:10; compare Lev 21:16
B. Being-in-becoming (developing all aspects of human activity)
Etic perspective:
| Heart - Eyes: | Zone of emotion-fused thinking |
| Mouth - Ears: | Zone of self-expressive speech |
| Hands - Feet: |
Zone of purposeful activity |
Emic perspective: (the
distinct vocabulary)
:
Emotion fused thought:
eyes, heart, eyelid, pupil; to see, know, understand, think, remember,
choose, feel, consider, look at; thought intelligence, mind, wisdom,
folly, intention, plan, will, affection, love, hate, sight, regard,
blindness, look; intelligent loving, wise, foolish, hateful, joyous,
sad, etc.
Self expressive speech: : ears, tongue, lips, throat, teeth, jaws; to speak, hear, say, call, cry, question, sing, recount, praise, listen to, blame, curse, swear disobey, turn a deaf ear to; speech voice, call, cry, clamor, song, sound, hearing; eloquent, dumb, talkative, silent, attentive, distracted, etc.
Purposeful action: hands,
feet, arms, fingers, legs; to do, act, accomplish, execute, intervene,
touch, come, go, march, walk, stand, sit; to steal, kidnap, commit
adultery, build,; action, gesture, work, activity, behavior, step,
walking, way , course; active, capable, quick, slow, etc.
For example:
Matt 5--7
C. Doing (calculated, planned activity)
Matt 7:21
Matt 12:46-50
Matt 26:36, esp 39, 42
Matt 8:14-17
Is Jesus counter-cultural? or rather counter-structural?
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de Gėradon, Bernard. "L'homme à l'image de Dieu."
La Nouvelle Révue
Théologique 80 (1958) 683-695.
John J. Pilch, Introducing the Cultural Context of the New
Testament
(Eugene, OR: Wipf Stock),
pp. 244; and 93-126.