From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] "Justice" in hebraic thinking
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:25:52 +0200
Hello all, I would like peoples' comments please on the following:
The word TSaDaK (justice) is never used in a negative way unlike in western
thinking; by this I mean that we would say that justice is done when the
guilty are punished. But in hebrew I can only find Justice being used to
"Aquit the Innocent". My immediate thinking was that i was simply being
pedantically ridiculous, but this concept of never applying the word
"Justice" to the enacment of a sentence against the guilty does have wider
implications - biblically speaking. When I consider the opposites to this
word I do not find the idea of "injustice" but rather more descriptive words
such as moral distortion, perverse and iniquity. Obvious I know, for this
lies at the heart of injustice; as I said comments and rejections are
appreciated. Chris.
[b-hebrew] "Justice" in hebraic thinking,
wattswestmaas, 05/16/2004