The real, the theoretical, and the spiritual.(language and song)

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

MAN'S FIRST LANGUAGE WAS SONG. IN IMITATION OF THE birds. The idea was first proposed by Giovanni Battista Vico, a late seventeenthcentury Italian historian and philosopher. He believed that man's first language was in song-and that this language was in harmony with creation. That's why, it seems to me, the Torah and everything else Jewish is chanted, as a continuation of man's first language.

You can read this little anecdote about Vico and much more (not necessarily on this topic) in my novel, Diary of an Adulterous Woman).

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