David Brooks» recent column on genius, which offered a portrait of the Mozart who excelled by logging his ten thousand hours of rote practice to get on sooner to the good stuff, seemed to gibe poorly with not only our romantic understanding of
unique human excellence but our practical....
In Old Testament Israel, he rightly remains the first man, the
unique man, the prophet par
excellence, the peculiarly God - like man playing the role of
human Creator - Sustainer - Redeemer in the first epoch of Israel's life.