Assignment: Blog about why you did or did not finish the Bible. If you did finish the Bible, how did you do it?
Things to think about:
Book of Luke (re-read)
-Parables
Corinthians 2:9, 13, 15
-Midsummer Night's Dream
-Shakespeare used the Geneva translation of the Bible; KJV had not been written
-Nick Bottom strongly misread Corinthians 2:9-10
Book of John
-Why does Peter keep coming up in literature?
-He's the 'straight' man, the square
Book of Acts
-Qualifies as Romance
Revelation
-Book for lunatics (eg Glenn Beck)
Questions for test:
- What is temenos?
- A holy precinct; a sacred space within a secular landscape; the room in which the sacred things will happen
- What does Sarah from The Slave pretend to be?
- Mute
- According to Frye, when is the epiphatic moment in the Book of Job?
- When God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind in ch. 38
- Note: an epiphany is a manifestation of the divine
- Frye thinks the happy ending (a framing device) is the right one because the Bible is a comedy, not a tragedy.
- What does 'Islam' mean?
- Submission, specifically in regards to God. The monotheisms are all submissive to God
- Read 'The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie!
- Why did Plotz think Gideon was so important?
- Plotz thought Gideon was one of the good people in the Bible; he questions God's motives and isn't up to the occasion to do what God asks him. He, however, rises to the occasion.
- What tribe is Ruth from?
- She was a Moabite married to a Hebrew man.
- Which book inspired 'Turn, Turn, Turn'?
- Eccesiastes
- What psalm inspired Allegri's Misere?
- Psalm 51
- Define parataxis
- A literary form in which all clauses carry equal weight; eg they have no subordinate conjunctions
- What are the two types of Wisdom?
- Conventional, proverbial wisdom and speculative, dark, dooming philosophies
- What book in the Bible never mentions God?
- The Book of Esther
- Samson's act, after regrowing his hair, does what?
- Pulls down the Temple of the Philistines, killing many people and himself
- What is the metaphor at the end of Ecclesiastes?
- A decaying house is comparable to the human body
- Ecclesiastes is a what?
- A preacher
- What is the central question of Job?
- Theodicy; where is wisdom to be found? Why do bad things happen to good people?
- What does one father warn one against while traveling abroad?
- Wine, women, and song
- In the parable that Jesus speaks in the Book of Luke concerning Martha and Mary, Mary is encumbered by many things. However, Jesus says she should be concerned by what?
- The needful thing
- In the Book of Job: Le the day I was born be in darkness, for the doors be what?
- Shut
- What apocryphal text does Wallace Stevens draw inspiration from?
- Susanna
- Which Flannery O'Connor story is based on the burning bush?
- Parker's Back
- Obadiah Elaju was his biblical name
- What was the conventional wisdom of the three friends of Job?
- Anyone who suffers must have done something to deserve suffering
- God says they don't speak the truth
- What does Job's wife's advice?
- Curse God and die.
- Read 116-119 in Frye
- What is kerygma; kerymatic writing?
- One's message; how to live a fuller life, a life more abundant.
- Something that revolutionizes and transforms one's thinking and perception of the world so that everything in the world becomes palpable and real.
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