John D. Brey
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It seems to us a noteworthy peculiarity of the Hebrew language that it uses the same word in one and the same form to express the idea of `ceasing to exist’ and that of `completion’ (`wholeness’ or `perfection’) . . . [Such is] the term תמים (tamim). In most of the verbal forms, it designates a complete cessation of existence. . . At the same time, it denotes the consummate perfection of existence.
Rabbi Samson Hirsch, Collected Writing, vol. III, p. 68.
Because of the extreme poverty of knowledge concerning human language in general, there are a myriad of opinions concerning the meaning of the languages found throughout the Bible. Emerging from this immense poverty is the general belief that because the Bible is extremely problematic when read according to the nearly universal dearth of insight concerning language in general, therefore the Bible, which happens to be the foundation and source of human existence itself, let alone human language, is often read as unimportant and indecipherable according the the dictates of the intellectual elites of the world.
Biblionics, like Ebonics, is a form of thought and thinking that piggybacks a general script and or vocalized language in order to convey subtle and not so subtle thoughts that aren't necessarily evoked by means of the borrowed script or vocalized language being used. Where Ebonics uses English, Biblionics uses mostly Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
In the same sense someone who doesn't know Ebonics is going to be incapable of interpreting the subtle and not so subtle meaning of phrases delivered in Ebonics, so too, those who don't know the nature of Biblionics, are not only going to misunderstand the meaning of the ideas conveyed through Biblionics, but they're likely to believe that what are in truth the most complex communications found throughout the history of mankind are instead the simplistic ramblings come from a great assembly of desert nomads and other well-meaning out-house sages.
Accordingly I turned my attention to the holy scriptures to find out what they were like. What I see in them today is something not accessible to the scrutiny of the proud nor exposed to the gaze of the immature, something veiled in mystery. At that time, though, I was in no state to enter, nor prepared to bow my head and accommodate myself to its ways. My approach then was quite different from the one I am suggesting now: when I studied the Bible and compared it with Cicero's dignified prose, it seemed to me unworthy. My swollen pride recoiled from its style and my intelligence failed to penetrate to its inner meaning.
Saint Augustine, Confessions.
John
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