God in the Machine

Jerry Friedman · 11 Oct 2002, 16:18 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) God in the Machine
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:18:32 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu> wrote:
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> Re: Garden of Eden:
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> If Whorl=3DGarden and Pas=3DGod, then Outsider=3D???
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> RE: knowledge of good and evil:
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> 'Knowledge' here should be read as (if you know Spanish) 'conocer'
> rather
> than 'saber' (to be familiar with vs. to be aware of).  I know a lot
> about
> Bill Clinton, but I don't know him.  The same Hebrew word is used later
> in
> Genesis to say Adam knew his wife Eve and she gave birth.
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> So Adam and Eve (presumably) knew the difference between good and evil,
> but they had not had experience with (knowledge of) good and evil.

Just as a clarification: I don't remember any such distinction existing
in Hebrew.  The verb lada`at (root yd`)is used for both factual
knowledge and familiarity.  Of course, this is consistent with the
possibility that conocer/connaitre may be the correct interpretation
in this passage, or a useful one for modern Christians (and Jews and
Muslims?).

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Jerry Friedman

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