Tanakh internal controls
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Tanakh does not treat seeing, hearing, knowing, discerning, judging, and walking as interchangeable acts. From Genesis onward, it repeatedly separates sensory reception from the inner judgment that follows. The decisive interpretive divide is therefore not simply whether two readers possess the same text, but whether Yehovah's davar remains the controlling standard as received information moves through the person toward mishpat and derekh. The positive pattern is expressed in לֵב שֹׁמֵעַ (lev shomeaʿ), while its clearest negative counterpart is שְׁרִרוּת לֵב (sherirut lev).
Author: ørjan, myhre
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212369659
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