Class Discussion
- Repetitive Parallelism - Commonly used in Hebrew poetry, a technique in which one term is balanced/repeated by another (typically in the next verse)
- Vico, an Italian secular philosopher, who hypothesized the "stages of language" as
- Metaphorical (pictures, images)
- Metonymy (one thing stands for something else)
- Demotic (vulgar, descriptive, ironic language)
- Vico also organized the 3 "ages" of civilization: the divine, the heroic, and the human.
- You can read more about it here (it starts in about the second paragraph)
- We talked about the Critical approach to the bible (A more scholarly, studious approach, obviously, Moses didn't write the first five books).
- And we also talked about the Traditional approach to the bible, which isn't interested in critique, more of a literal application.
- Dr. Sexson actually brought up an excellent point that there is a difference between taking the bible literally, and using it as a metaphorical tool to help us with problems in our lives, and with things that we can't explain. Awesome stuff. I believe he said, "We must relativise our traditions to furnish in a larger context."
- The Documentary Hypothesis: The bible wasn't written by one person, rather a series of redactors.
- Ovid and Claude Lévi-Strauss were mentioned.
- Logos=words.
- Rio shared a link to an online King James bible: bartleby.com/108
- Here is a YouTube link to the Miserere, by The Kings College Choir. (The song is the right one, I don't know if the video is actually Roy Goodman) You can buy it off iTunes as well as an individual song (.99 for this beautiful music!).
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