Fabbro F
Istituto di Fisiologia, Università di Trieste, Italy.
Brain Cogn. 1994 Mar;24(2):161-83. doi: 10.1006/brcg.1994.1009.
Although in several neuropsychological works dealing with hemispheric specializations a few passages of the Bible referring to the left and the right have been mentioned now and then, a systematical study with a neuropsychological approach to this topic was still a missing link. By using concordance texts from the Bible books of the Hebrew Canon (Old Testament, OT) and from the New Testament (NT), all the verses containing any reference to the left and the right (OT = 151, NT = 49 verses) have been identified and classified into 10 groups: (1) references to space, (2) symmetric sayings, (3) the right hand is the favorite hand, (4) right eye preference, (5) God's right hand, (6) the right side is more prestigious, (7) the right side in liturgy, (8) left hand preference, (9) fatal left-hand shots, and (10) on the left side. Some statistical considerations have been put forward and a neuropsychological, anthropological approach has been suggested for the purpose of interpreting the most interesting verses. According to the author of the present paper, it would be worthwhile commenting on some texts of ancient and modern literature not only from a linguistic, historical, religious and theological point of view, but also by means of a neuropsychological approach.
尽管在一些探讨半球特化的神经心理学著作中，时不时会提及《圣经》中一些涉及左与右的段落，但用神经心理学方法对该主题进行系统研究仍是一个缺失环节。通过使用希伯来文正典《圣经》旧约（OT）和新约（NT）中的经文索引，所有包含任何与左和右相关内容的经文（旧约 = 151节，新约 = 49节）都已被识别出来，并分为10组：（1）对空间的提及；（2）对称表述；（3）右手是惯用手；（4）右眼偏好；（5）上帝的右手；（6）右侧更具声望；（7）礼拜仪式中的右侧；（8）左手偏好；（9）致命的左手攻击；（10）在左侧。文中还提出了一些统计考量，并为解释最有趣的经文建议了一种神经心理学、人类学方法。据本文作者所言，不仅从语言、历史、宗教和神学角度，而且通过神经心理学方法对古代和现代文学的一些文本进行评论是值得的。
