Comments on Jeremy Cohen's Essay (1980) "Original Sin as The Evil Inclination"
By Razie Mah
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In 1980, Jeremy Cohen publishes an essay in the July-October issue of the Harvard Theological Review (vol 73(3/4) pp. 495-520). The full title is "Original Sin as the Evil Inclination - A Polemicist's Appreciation of Human Nature".
In 1278, the Dominicans are changing Western civilization by examining the texts of Aristotle. A Spanish theologian writes a polemic for the conversion of Jews. In that polemic lies a potential jewel, juxtaposing the Christian doctrine of Original Sin with diverse medieval Jewish commentary on the Evil Inclination.
Alas, the jewel was precipitated with an old alchemy, set in a world of conflict, and then forgotten by the modern age.
Yet, it catches the keen eye of Jeremy Cohen.
My comments follow Cohen's article backwards, passing through IV to I, into the furnace of... dare I say it... 'who we are' as opposed to 'who we evolved to be'. Here, the jewel may be recast in the hypothesis of the first singularity and set in the scepter of the ever-present "now".
Razie Mah
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Comments on Jeremy Cohen's Essay (1980) "Original Sin as The Evil Inclination" - Razie Mah
Comments on Jeremy Cohen's Essay (1980) Original Sin as The Evil Inclination
By Razie Mah
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2018
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This work comments on an essay written by Jeremy Cohen and published in the Harvard Theological Review (vol. 73(3/4), 1980, pp. 495-520). The full title of the article is Original Sin as The Evil Inclination - A Polemicist's Appreciation of Human Nature.
Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.
Prerequisites include A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction. Suggested readings include An Archaeology of the Fall.
Table of Contents
Entrance
Part Four
Part Three
Part Two
Part One
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0001 In Original Sin as The Evil Inclination - A Polemicist's Appreciation of Human Nature
(1980 AD), Jeremy Cohen at Cornell University, raises three concentric questions. My goal is to examine these questions from the point of view of the category-based nested form and the first singularity.
The first question, the middle circle, rhetorically asks (more or less), Why does a medieval Spanish Dominican compare the Christian doctrinal notion of original sin with the Jewish concept of
yeser ha-ra" or the evil inclination?"
0002 Of course, yeser ha-ra
is from Hebrew and my casting in quotes is contrived. But, let us not raise an issue on this. Yeser ha-ra