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St. Paul's Error: The Semantic Changes of BODY and SOUL in the Western World
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Affiliated research area: Philology, Cognitive Linguistics, Body, Soul, Hebrew, Greek, English, Religion, St. Paul, Christianity, Judaism, Frames, Translation, Exegesis

Description
Historically Christianity owes much to Judaism. St. Pauls Christianity, however, changed the way of thinking of m any of the first Jews because of a new way of reasoning about selfhood, the human body, and human cognition. Without wanting to treat certain theological concepts, I want to underline how modern sciences view of the person is closer to traditional Judaism than it is to Christianity, and how Pauls error was diffused throughout the Western world, by analyzing the semantics of linguistic references to the body, the soul, and emotions. What was St. Pauls error? The question means to be both allusive and provocative. He was born by the name Saul in the city of Tarsus, in modern Turkey, during the height of its splendor as a Roman-Greek city. Paul grew up as a free man, that is, as a Roman citizen in a cosmopolitan environment. He is considered to be the most influential and productive of the testimonies of the Christian thought throughout Asia Minor and Western Europe. His epistles circulated throughout his time and continue to influence millions of followers, who often interpret his thoughts in contrasting manner, but nonetheless attest to his authority. An erudite Greek-Roman, persecutor of the first Christians, Paul battled to spread the story of Jesus of Nazareth. His ideology, indeed, is a blend of Greek-Roman thought and of what he learned from the first Christians. The Hellenic characteristics of his faith created a divergence from traditional Judaic thought within what was to become the Christian creed though his influence. As a matter of fact, Christianity came to have a more coherent structure because of Paul, and Christian belief in a way is more Pauls thought than it is Jesus. Jewish teaching circa selfhood was quite holistic. The Hebrew word nephesh is often translated as soul but also means body, whereas Paul clearly distinguishes the two, talking about a co-existence, concupiscence and the necessity of dominating the body to exalt the spirit. I will examine the semantic changes in words dealing with body and soul, and how Pauls authority eventually influenced the Western worlds way of r easoning about such concepts.

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