Near Eastern” way of writing. Sternberg attributes this contrast to a disparity between different cultural ways of trying to define ontological reality: the Greeks staked their success on human exploration or contemplation of the Ultimate, and Israel’s neighbors staked such success on human wit and wisdom, but the Hebrew prophets listened for the word of the Lord.59 This disparity rested even more fundamentally on the absence in the thought of most Greek thinkers of a Creator, a personal God, who