Things to Review/Study
- Plotz Genesis-Judges
- Chapters 1&2 Words with Power
- Class Notes
- Stories discussed in class
- Northrop Frye's Words with Power
- Chapter 1 & 2
- Shape of Bible
- U-Shape
- Shape of Comedy
- ends happily- world is not destroyed! (Very Happy Thing)
- tragedies end sadly- world would be destroyed (Very Very bad thing)
- Why is the Bible a comedy?
- Frye says that the Bible is unified
- agrees with the documentary hypothesis (dozens of writers)
- Frye says this is not important
- that the writers integrated and united the text
- Why does Frye believe that the Bible is unified?
- Answer
- It is unified in terms of imagry and narrative structure!
- Frye's Levels of Language
- Chapter 1: Sequence & Mode
- 1st level
- factual/descriptive language
- literal
- example: newspaper articles
- level that most people use to read the Bible
- 2nd level
- conceptual/dialectic
- logic, philosophy, political writings
- 3rd level
- Persuasive/Rhetorical
- emotions of writer & audience
- 4th level
- mythic/Literary
- no dividing line between emotion & intellect
- this is the level that the Bible should be read with
- The levels can also be found at http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/frye.html
- Chapter 2 Words with Power
- Concerns & Myth
- Primary Concerns
- food
- drink
- sex
- property
- liberty of movement
- Secondary Concerns
- religion
- class
- virtues
- morals
- More info can be found at http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/frye.html
- Know that God=male & Israel=female in relationships
- Israel is often referred to as a harlot or given feminine attributes
- In a patriarchy, even men are ____________.
- WOMEN
- What is the difference between women, feminine, and female?
- women
- specific woman in the Bible
- female
- biological gender
- feminine
- symbolic
- these three categories often interrelate
- What is couvade?
- Childbirht envy
- inspired by Eve's birth from Adam
- French origin
- Eve is a metaphor of?
- feminity
- as would be Zephora
- What are Epistles
- letters
- major literary form in the New Testament
- What are the 7 part of the Bible according to Frye?
- Creation
- Exodus
- Law
- Wisdom
- Prophecy
- Gospel
- Apocalypse
- Which son was to be blessed by Abrham?
- Esau
- had his birthright stolen by his brother
- T/F: Lilith is the other wife of Adam according to the Bible.
- FALSE
- She is referred to in a text outside of the Bible
- What is a lacuna?
- Gaps in narrative
- What levitical law keeps Rachel's father from searching her saddlebags?
- The law that says not to have anything to do with a menstral woman as she is unclean
- Why are the interupptions of Genesis 38 & the Book of Ruth important?
- They provide geneologies that help interrelate important characters from the Bible.
- What does Tamar dress as to trick her father-in-law to get her pregnant?
- a harlot
- Who is usually favored to be chosen for a task?
- the person who is least likley to have the job or qualifications (underdog)
- Example: Moses
- What is the problem with the 10 Commandments?
- There are more than10 of them.
- What are the two views on the writer of the 1st 5 books of the Bible?
- Traditional
- all written by Moses
- Scholarly
- written by many writers
- Who wrote the Bible?
- JEDPR
- Jehovis, Elohist, Deuteronomist, Priestly, Redactor
- How did Ziporah save Moses from God in a vengeful mood?
- She circumsiced her sone & held the flesh between Moses' legs
- What does Apocalypse mean?
- unveiling
- What is an ediology?
- an explanation of how things came to be
- example: rainbows
- Know about the forbidden fruit
- What did God say his name was to Moses?
- I am that I am - YHWH
- Jacob wrestles with a man and knocks his thigh out of joint and changes his name to what?
- Israel
- What was the punishment for hte Tower of Babel?
- "confusion of the language"
- Know the symbolism behind the cave, mountain, furnace, and garden
- What apects of Biblical peotry inspired Chaucer/Shakespeare?
- repetitive parrellelism
- Jane Eyre's favorite Biblical writer?
- the J writer
- narrative
- What is the Great Event in Jewish Mythology?
- leaving Egypt
- Exodus from Egypt
- When wsa the Southern Kingdom destroyed?
- 587 BCE
- KNow the story of Onan
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