Melvin Alexenberg sheds light on Hebraic consciousness:
In his book The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness, Melvin Alexenberg builds upon the scholarship of Thorleif Boman whose study of the language of the Hebrew Scriptures leads him to characterize the people of the scriptures: “If Israelite thinking is to be characterized, it is obvious first to call it dynamic, vigorous, passionate, and sometimes quite explosive in kind; correspondingly Greek thinking is static, peaceful, moderate, and harmonious in kind.”
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If Israelite thinking is to be characterized, it is obvious first to call it dynamic, vigorous, passionate, and sometimes quite explosive in kind; correspondingly Greek thinking is static, peaceful, moderate, and harmonious in kind.1 Thorleif Boman
Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (p. 9). Intellect Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
The Bible encoded in a flowing scroll form provides a clue as to the nature of biblical consciousness as an open-ended, living system.
Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (pp. 11-12). Intellect Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Hebraic consciousness shares with postmodernism a dynamic, creative, playful consciousness that promotes the interplay between
multiple perspectives and alternating viewpoints from inside and from outside.
Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (p. 13). Intellect Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Hebraic thought celebrates dynamic, multiform, time- centered, open systems in which spirituality is drawn down into every part of our daily lives. Rather than a quest for purity of form in some heavenly realm, Judaism seeks to reveal spirituality in the rough complexities of earth-bound living.
Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (p. 17). Intellect Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Jewish history is the prototype for the creative tension and energetic interplay between subjugation and freedom, between local action and global consciousness, between narrow unidirectional thought and open-ended systems thought, between spiritual and material realms, and between being rooted in one’s own culture and exploring others. This tension and interplay can become the stimulus and raw material for forging new directions for art in our era of globalization.
Alexenberg, Mel. The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (pp. 16-17). Intellect Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.