The Ritual World and Perspectives on Reality
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It has often been said that the East and West have two different views of philosophy and reality as a whole. But what about the Ancient Near East? How might a philosophical understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures—a Christian reading of Leviticus as catechism of reality, for instance—help in understanding the order of all things? Is there a difference between the ritual world and the modern world? And might this difference betray a difference in understanding the way of things? Episode 13 of Quick to Listen is a brief selection from lecture 1.2 of Dr. Mark A. Garcia's module, The Order of Reality: Levitical Foundations of Christian Theory. In today's episode, Dr. Garcia considers the ritual view of reality found in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Scriptures.