Did the Hebrew mind work differently from those of people in the Western tradition of
civilization? This long-discredited question still lingers in biblical studies. Theologies of
the Mind in Biblical Israel approaches the topic of the Israelite mind from a new direction
exploring how the biblical texts themselves especially Proverbs and Deuteronomy describe the
working of the mind. It demonstrates that the much-discussed role of memory in the Bible is
just one part of a general understanding that in the realm of 'knowledge' God and humanity are
rivals.
