[July 2006 journal entry]
The whirlwind section of the story/play seems to encourage a developmental view of the natural order. Is such a view found elsewhere in ancient Jewish thought? The newborn analogy is suggestive in at least three additional ways – i.e., (1) the natural order is personified so as to have an independent will, (2) the natural order is pictured to be maturing past infant/immature behavior, and (3) earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, et al are interpreted as tantrums.
The whirlwind section of the story/play seems to encourage a developmental view of the natural order. Is such a view found elsewhere in ancient Jewish thought? The newborn analogy is suggestive in at least three additional ways – i.e., (1) the natural order is personified so as to have an independent will, (2) the natural order is pictured to be maturing past infant/immature behavior, and (3) earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, et al are interpreted as tantrums.