[osis-core] Users Manual Bug List - 64. Person to human

[Kirk Lowery]

Chris Little wrote:
>> 64. Person to human

[snip]

> In other words, I think we could clear up the confusion with just prose 
> and a few examples (and no schema changes).

Do we want to distinguish between sentient/non-sentient and at the same 
time human/non-human? I'm thinking about angels, demons and deities. In 
the ancient near east religions an ordinary object can become a deity. 
In Ugaritic (and also claimed by some scholars to be the same in the 
Psalms) the word "yam" which ordinarily means "sea" is used as "Yam" the 
Sea God (later in classical culture, Neptune).

The move from "person" to "human" loses the the ability to label 
"nonhuman sentient", "nonsentient, nonhuman" (e.g., Job's Leviathan...). 
What is Frodo? A hobbit, a nonhuman sentient. In the current schema, a 
person.

Hmmm, I've got to go back and read my Aristotle, but where is that 
section on classifying elves and eldils?... :-)

My $0.02.

Kirk
-- 
Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D.
Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute
Adjunct Professor of Old Testament
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia

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