10-01-06
Test on Thursday. My notecard questions:
1.) What would Tevye (from Fiddler on the Roof) do if he had all the money in the world?

2.) Why, according to Justin and Dr. Sexson, do bad things happen to good people?

3.) J might be a secular storyteller. True or False?


So there are a few things that we know will be on the test:
Creation
Revelution
Law
Wisdom
Prophesy
(1st five-Old Testament)
Gospel
Apocalypse
(Last two-New Testament)

Use of Metaphors in bible.

Documentary hypothesis is an authorship theory of the first five books in the Pentatute, or the Torah.
-Author known as P for priestly, lists.
-Author known as J for Jahovah, Yaweh,storyteller, Lord God, personal, possibly
female. Secular storyteller. Ironic. Complex character developement.
-Author known as E plural gods.
-Author known as D for Deuderomenist.
-Author known as R for redactor, cannonized, collection of all revised, loved by
Rosenberg, hated by Bloom.

Name changes and angel stories= transformation. Oral voice: God spoke, woman spoke, She sang beyond...

Litany- repitition of names.
Archetypes. Myths.

Three great Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (Joseph possibly the fourth.)

Patriarchy. Isreal wife to God. Trickster figures. Why do the women have such interesting roles?

Taboo...Powerful.