Manfred Davidmann

Manfred Davidmann is an internationally well-known and respected scientist and consultant, and author of a number of books and reports which have had and are having considerable impact. His work usually breaks new ground and opens up new understanding and is written in meaningful and easily understood language. Outstanding is that his work is generally accepted as factual, objective and unbiased.

More than 6 million copies of his reports have been downloaded from the Solhaam website so far and have changed the way in which people live, think and behave.

The Fifteen Most Popular Downloads

• Style of Management and Leadership

• Family, Sex and the Individual; Women's Liberation, Feminism and Community

• How the Human Brain Developed and the Human Mind Works

• ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM

• MOTIVATION: Summary

• Meaning and Significance of the Names of God in Genesis

• Co-operatives and Co-operation: Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success

• The Will to Work: What People Struggle to Achieve

• Directing and Managing Change

• Using Words to Communicate Effectively

• Inflation, Balance of Payments and Currency Exchange Rates
  Including: How Base (General) Interest Rates determine Share Prices and Pensions

• Organising

• Multinational Operations: Transfer Pricing and Taxation

• The Meaning of Genesis: Creation, Evolution and the Origin of Evil

• COMMUNITY ECONOMICS: Ownership and Limited Liability

Books by Manfred Davidmann

• ISLAM: Basis - Past - Present - Future
  
  
• God and People: The Social Laws and Social System
  Underlying Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Democracy
  
  
• THE HUMAN MIND AND HOW IT WORKS:
  Group Minds in Action: How the Human Group Mind
  Shapes the Quality of Our Life and Living
  
  
• COOPERATIVES AND COOPERATION:
  Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success
  
  
• Management and Leadership:
  Local, National, Multinational (Global),
  Principles and Practice
  
  
• The Real World in Which We Live:
  The Social Rules and Social System under Which We Suffer, Struggle, Survive and Prosper
  
  
• Messianic Struggle: The Worldwide Struggle for a Good and Secure Life for All, Here and Now
  
  
• Judaism: Basis - Past - Present - Future, Part 1
  
  

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Theme of the Week (Current Events, Current Problems)

• Themes     (listed by content)
  
  
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  Previous themes:
  
  
• 'Men and Women, Family and Children; Dominance, Oppression and Exploitation'
  
  
• 'Judaism at the Crossroads, at the Final Parting of the Ways'
  
  
• 'The Human Brain and the Human Mind'
  
  
• 'The choice is yours:
  Unemployment, Charitable Social Security and Today's Religious Teachings or
  High Standard of Living, Satisfying Work and a Good Life, as God-given rights.'
  
  

Theme:

'Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, Education or Indoctrination.
And
Reading, Interpreting, Translating of Ancient Consonantal Texts like the Bible or the Koran.'

Reading, Interpreting, Translating of Ancient Consonantal Texts like the Bible or the Koran.

The first step towards understanding the content of the Bible is to understand how recorded letters and symbols were used to state the meaning of words. Such knowledge and understanding is particularly important when considering what scholars and clerics have done and are doing when they are 'interpreting' the text of the Bible.

Just why there has been so much confusion about reading, interpreting and translating of consonantal texts (like the Bible) can be seen from the following definitions:

'Reading' and 'interpreting' are closely interconnected since choice of words determines the meaning of the sentence, of the text.

Translating scholars, working from a consonantal text (no vowels), had to 'read' the text. That is, they had to decide between, or choose from, alternative meanings for given groups of letters (words), considering and selecting the most likely meaning of the sentence (interpretation).

Of course, they could only 'read' and 'interpret' the text, could only select a 'most likely' meaning, within their own knowledge and understanding. That is, within the knowledge and understanding available to them at that time, at the time of translation.

For much else, including notes and sources, see the report

Text, Language, Dialect and Interpretation of the Koran

by Manfred Davidmann

Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, Education or Indoctrination.

When the word "ereb" was taken to mean "evening", and the word "boker" was taken to mean "morning", then the phrase at the end of each stage of creation in Genesis could be interpreted to mean "there was evening and there was morning, one day." A reading and interpretation which corresponded to the knowledge and understanding of those doing the translating in those times. The knowledge needed for understanding Genesis was simply not available at time of translation.

But the 'word' ereb, said Manfred Davidmann, can mean "evening," or else "to mingle," or "not to distinguish between them." Likewise, the 'word' boker can mean "morning," or "to search," "to examine," and possibly "to check carefully." The statement about evening and morning, then, can just as easily be translated as

"there was a mingling and a uniformity and a searching for differences and an examination of differences"

- a clear statement of the process of evolutionary advance which, said Manfred Davidmann, is both valid and relevant considering our understanding of Genesis and our present scientific knowledge.

For much else, including notes and sources, see the report

Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, Education or Indoctrination

by Manfred Davidmann

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