抄録
After introducing and criticizing W. F. Albright's “Ancient Israelite Mind”, the most recent contribution in this field, the lecturer discusses the problem of the Israelites' rejection of dualism, which Siegfried and Tremontant considered to be the typical way of the Israelite thinking. The lecturer emphasizes, however, that as the dualism and monism are correlative in nature, the more important approach to the problem would be to find out how both ways of thinking are correlated in a people's thinking. His opinion is that in the language a verbal sentence is monistic because of its one-term character, whereas a nominal sentence is dualistic in terms of its two term character. As for the Hebrew language, a verb comes at the very beginning of the sentence, a fact which indicates the emphasis of the activity of the subject. In case of a nominal sentence a copula combines the two terms. In Hebrew it is a particle of emphasis which is the expression of volition rather than logic in the Israelite mind. This indicates that the Israelite tries to solve the antagonism of the two poles of facticity and ideality in favour of the former through their volitional emphasis of activity. This is historically exemplified in Job and the Prophets in the Old Testament.
