Class Summary for 10/20/09 and 10/22/09

TUESDAY

• Writing lets everyone know what to do--the repetitive oral tradition.
• pg. 50 Frye
• The blacks feel a connection with the enslaved Jews.
• There are probably three factual words in the New Testament.
• Weltgeschichte - world history, factual
• Heilgechichte - holy history
• Israelites figured out that you don't have to keep God in centralized place.
• William Faulkner, Absulon is killed.
• Ernest Hemingway, The Son Also Rises
• Nova's The Bible's Buried Secrets.
• The Book of Joshua is a military book. (the hill of foreskins)
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Job 
• The nature of suffering: theodicy.
• He is blameless and upright, greatest of all people (if greatness is determined by wealth)
• Patience of Job?
• He's not that patient...

THURSDAY

• History is His-story
• The stories are what save the Jews, not history.
• First king of Israel--Saul
• Saul isn't that great, he's replaced by David.
• For next test, we need to know Ch. 5 from Frye.
• Proverbs 19:18
• Spare the rod, spoil the child.
• Prudential vs. Skeptical
• Skeptical Wisdom - there's gotta be a reason, the ticket story from Karamatzov
  
• William Blake's Job art and poem.
• Wisdom isn't necessarily knowledge.
• Frye's V-shaped narrative.