01.04. Eastern and Western Culture

Eastern and Western Culture In the world, past and present, there are two major types of cultures, Eastern and Western. The ancient Hebrews and other ancient Semitic cultures as well as today’s Orientals of the Far East, and the Bedouins of the Near and Middle East, see the world through Eastern cultural eyes. The ancient Greeks and Romans as well as today’s European and American cultures see the world through Western cultural eyes. The modern Hebrews are mostly comprised of transplanted Europeans and also belong to the Western culture.

These Eastern and Western cultures view their surroundings, lives, and purpose in ways that would seem foreign to the other. Through this book we will be looking at a few of the differences between these two cultures. To more fully understand the ancient texts of the Bible, which were written in the ancient Eastern culture of the Hebrews, we must place ourselves within their culture rather than reading the text through the eyes of the modern Western culture.