Quotables: Wild JudaismIn looking at the Hebrew view of nature, it is a common mistake to pay more attention to the form—the bare idea of a single transcendent God—than to the content, both legal and poetic. The content of the Bible shows, as the great nineteenth-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt noted, a greater and more sweeping sense of the grandeur of nature than is found among the Greeks, even at their most “pagan.” (p. 52)
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