Class Summary for 11/3/09

• Bach's Solo Cello Suite 1 in G Major
• We should be reading the Gospel of John
• Blogs: Shelby, Amanda, Ashley
• According to Northrop Frye, the bible, taken as a whole is a comedy.
• A story that has a happy ending.
• Apocalypse doesn't mean the violent end of the world.
• Apo - Take away
• Calypse - The veil
• Seeing the world as it really is--beyond the forms we perceive it now.
• Christians use the Old Testament to validate the New.
• Origins of Christianity
• Essene - Authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, withdrawn from a corrupt world.
• The 1st three gospels are the synoptic gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke
• Parataxis
• Baptism is a symbolic death/resurrection.
• Parable - an attack on the structure of expectations. (The Good Samaritan)