Many things discussed today:
Why is Jeromiah adominable? Masogomist? Colorful punishments?
Contradictions
Incest
God's justice
Patriarch
Metaphors
The Book of Job
Hagglers
Does God admire people who stand up to him?
722 B.C.
Jewish people who kept a notion of beliefs while in exhile.
Rebuilding of the Temple
Exile...

And the idea of exile has lingered in my mind. First I'd like to point out that if hospitality is deeply valued in the time of the Old Testament, then exile must also be valued.

Exile: can be a form of punishment, or a self-imposed leaving of ones homeland. It means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country) while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return.
-Wikipedia

-Adam and Eve are Exiled from the garden of Eden.
-Archetype of Cain: Exile.
-Tower of Babel, Exile from language?
-Noah and family exiled to Arc.
-Abraham and Sarah forced from land due to famine.
-Jacob forced to leave to escape Esau's revenge.
-Joseph sold as slave by brothers.
-Lot and daughters are sent away from hometown
-Hagar and Ishmael are sent off into the wilderness
-Moses' birth
-Moses and his people
-Lepers, "contaminated women"
-Jesus' birth
-Jesus' youth
-Jesus sent into the desert.
-Pilgramages to mecca
-Holocaust
-Foriegn Policy
-Refugees
-expulsion
-The U.S.
-Native Americans
-Chief Joseph
-Australia


-Archetype of hero:
The hero usually suffers a great loss, which makes him set off on a quest.
The hero generally has a mentor or helper who helps him on his quest.
The hero must face a set of trials, which allow him to overcome "evil".
The hero narrowly escapes death, usually more than once.
The hero escapes the "evil villain's" stronghold or destroys him.
The hero is then reintegrated into society with a new status, wealth, or marriage to the princess.
There has to be a happy ending.
(Recently a female hero or heroine has become accepted and very common.)