Abstract

AbstractI argue that the Hebrew Bible adopts a non-doxastic account of propositional faith. In coming to this conclusion, we shall discover that Biblical Hebrew has no word for belief. What ramifications might this have had for biblical and Jewish epistemology? I begin to trace the sort of epistemic norms that might emerge from an epistemology that approaches knowledge by thinking about faith, rather than belief.

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  • What does it mean, for some proposition p, to have faith that p? In the first part of this article, I argue that the Hebrew Bible has a non-doxastic conception of propositional faith

  • The Bible, we have discovered, has a word for propositional faith

  • It turns out that, since propositional emunah is a species of faith, and not a species of belief, the Hebrew Bible has no word for belief

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Introduction

For some proposition p, to have faith that p? In the first part of this article, I argue that the Hebrew Bible has a non-doxastic conception of propositional faith. The question becomes, when emunah does function as a propositional attitude, in the Hebrew Bible, is it more like propositional faith, or is it more like belief?

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