Class Notes 9/9/2010

Frye: Words of Power- Mountain, Garden, Cave, and Furnace
          -Assigning groups on Tuesday
          -6 groups
Review of Tuesday 9/7/2010
          -Old Testament
                   -Christian Bible
                   -Torah
                   -Books of Moses
          -New Testament
                   -Gospels
                           Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
                                -Biographies of Jesus of Nazareth
Literary Value
   -Receipts
        Scrolling Forward: David M. Levy
                      -Judean/Hebrew respect for oral traditions of Bible
                      -Save from extinction
                      -Important for all 4 religions of the Bible
    -Important because it helps us see the value of all written word
                      -Historical documents need to be approached with the right attitude
                      - Results in more complete understanding
                                  -Bible
                                  -Joe's Parkway Receipt
Spirit of law vs. letter of law (Discussed by St. Paul in the Bible)
     Spirit of law give life
     Letter of law kills
                    -carved in stone
                    -no fluidity

Frye: Entire Bible in 7 words
   1. Creation
   2. Exodus (Revolution)
   3. Law (Torah)
   4. Wisdom                                                  MEMORIZE
   5. Prophecy                              Come up with acronym by Tuesday!
   6. Gospel
   7. Apocalypse (Revelations)  

Plotz: We impose meaning from the Bible to serve ourselves
                -unlikely the meanings that were meant to be taken from the Bible
         -Bible
                -collage that is not a coherent whole according to Plotz
                -coherent whole but not likely in the way most people understand it to be; literary people                                        
                  understand this
Documentary Hypothesis (Wikipedia)
     JEDPR
         -J- (Yahwist) superior storyteller, Court of Solomon, told the stories of Jacob, Genesis
                 -Version of Genesis
                       -God is on Earth
                       -Adamah: means out of the ground; how Adam got his name
               -created anxiety of influence; Shakespeare
         -E- Elohist- writer- Prophesies, dreams, & visions (Sacrifice of Isaac)
         -D-Dueteronomists- wrote most of Deuteronomy- added centuries later- said Moses had spoken it -        
               gives authority
        -P- Priestly- focuses on generation, genealogy, numerations, rituals
        -R- Redactor- editor
Life of Brian
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA&feature=related
Texts of Genesis
       -table of different account of creation
       -lacuna- gaps
       -http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/genesis_texts.html