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Cosmos/Cosmology in the Greek Philosophical Tradition
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The Greek word κόσμος/
kósmos is often translated as “order” or “world,” yet early Christian philosophers understood it to incorporate the ordered universe and its relation to both human existence and its creator. The study of the cosmos, or cosmology, then, seeks to explain the origins, the structure, and the destiny of the ordered universe. Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 490 BCE) is said to have been the first to call the universe by this name. The Ptolemaic form, with the earth at the center of a spherical cosmic system, dominated philosophical thinking until Copernicus’ challenge in his work
On …
Date:
2024-01-19
Canaan
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The term Canaan has its roots in the Hebrew כנען/
knʿn and combines the Semitic root
k-n-c with a common suffix –(a)n. The term translates into Greek as Χαναάν and into Latin as Canaan. Of the multiple ways to read the word “Canaan” in late antiquity this article focuses on three: Canaan as land, as a people, and as a person.LandScholars connect the name Canaan with the land of
Kana'an, the general northwest Semitic name for this region. Canaan appears as
KURki-na-ah-na in the Amarna letters (tablets from the 14th cent. BCE), and
knʿn appears on coins from Phoenicia in the last half …
Date:
2024-01-19
