Monday, October 10, 2005
Study Notes for First Test
This is devided into 2 parts. The first part are the questions we went over in class. The second part is a list of my study notes and vocab list. As always, never expect anything I write to be spelled correctly.
Class Test Questions:
PART TWO:
Vocab and Definitions: check out dictionary.com and wikipedia.org where my notes are missing information. I'm not gonna do ALL of your work for you!
Class Test Questions:
- Laughter - teaching tool used to prove a point with a story, even if we don't understand the laughter(historical context is lost on us)
- YHWH as a trickster - ridiculing other tribes
- Shift from Nomadic peoples into Agricultural, from Hebrews to Jesus
- Will of YHWH brought about by women circumventing men, -Rebekah -Lots daughters -Tamar
- Levites Concubine (type of wife)
- Patrilocal vs. Virilocal DEF: patrilocal, man visits woman in the house of her father // virilocal, man takes woman from the house of her father into his own house and takes on the responsiblity of her father to take care of her
- Hospitality > protecting women - as women are portrayed in bible
- This view of great importance placed on Hospitality is found in both biblical and classical writings
- Biblicaly, there is a difference between the feminine and the female - feminine, biological // female, cultural and socialy defined
- The bible was writen over 1,000 years in several different areas
- "You" in Hebrew bible means "Men". It is gender definitive
- Vocab - Teraphim, household gods // Decalogue, 10 commandments split into 2 sections, worship laws and social laws, different versions found in J and P // Synecdoche - link
- What are names of Adam and Eve's children? Cain, Able, Seth and other sons and daughters. check out question number 7 - link
- How did Jakob get his name changed? He wrestled with an angel
- How many of the Danaids are in the underworld pouring water? 48, one left with husband, the other was captured by Poseidon
- Which part of the human body is grabbed during abduction? The wrist
- What are the 3 stages of the mexis relationship? Conviviality, Rape, Indiference
- More Vocab - Cannon, link(SCROLL DOWN ON PAGE AND READ WORD HISTORY!!!) // Psyche, Soul // Sporagmos, tearing of flesh, dismemberment // Paronomasia, word play // Lacunae, gaps in the story, found in biblical tradition // Patriarchy, rule of fathers, from body part meaning "the head" - "head of the family"
- What are the four levels of discourse in Frye? Descriptive, Conceptual, Ideological, Kerigmatic
- Literal meaning of the name Prometheus - he who thinks before he acts, forethought
- What happened to Thystes sons? They were chopped up and served to him as dinner
- What biblical phrase best describes Frye's most important point? "Life more abundent"
- Which books are in the Torah(law), pentateuch(READ WORD HISTORY) - Genisis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Duteronomy
- The Philistines get Hemorrhoids from storing the Arc of the Covenant
- How'd Zeus break the cycle of death of sons/fathers? He ate Metis
- What are the four Viconian stages? Gods, Heros, Men, Chaos
PART TWO:
- The Grapes of Wrath was writen by what author and mentioned in what song by what artist? John Steinbeck, Battle Hym of the Republic by Julia How - "Stamping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored" - comes from Revelations
- Where did Colloso find his inspiration and some details for writing stories? He looked at the classical paintings about the scenes he would write.
- See under Vocab and Definitions, Documentary Hypothosis. Name the five different authors of the bible. J, E, D, P, R.
- List the works of the following Greek authors: Ovid, Homer, Hesiod, Vergil, and list the names of the playwrites with surviving work. Ovid, Metamorphoses(over 280 stories) - Homer, Illiad and Oddessy(was Homer Illiterate?) - Hesiod, Theogony - Vergil, Aeneid - Surviving playwrites are Sophecles, Euripides, Escalis, and Aristophanes who wrote The Oresteiya, one of our text books
- "He who sews the wind will reap the wirlwind"
- "Why use 5 words when you can use 100?"(the long winded nature of the bible) There is a difference between repetituous and long winded. Metaphores(without "like" or "as") and Similes(only "like" and "as") are used at great length. The bible authors drop "like" and "as"(and metaphores) replacing them with "is" to make their writings more powerful!
- Differences between J and P bible authors! 1. name for "god" - J, "god" - P, no name until later 2. order of creation - J, humans on 7th day - P, humans on 6th day 3. god described as being - J, on earth, humanly - P, transcendent -- read Valeries post.
- The F word, "Fall" - The T word, "Truth"
- The Paratactic use of "And" empowers the story and the reader. The use of "Because", "However", and "Before" takes power from the audience
- Freud believed we contain the memories of our entire life, even the things "we don't remember" are still inside our heads. Jung believed that we all have a collective memory of all past human lives.
- Gaia gives birth to everything, inlcuding her husband Uranos. Uranus pushes male children back into mom.(parallels with Greeks fear of male children being born who will be stronger than the father) This is the same as the biblical story of Moses. Chronos, son of Gaia, castrates his dad with a scythe and the gentils, tossed into a foamy sea, become Aphrodite. Chronos eats his own sons but Zues is spirited away. Chronos eats a rock instead and Zues grows up to usurpe Chronos. Zeus ends the cycle by eating his mom, Metis(wisdom).
- Building a church on the ruins of a pagan worship site does two things 1. represses aspects of pagan religion and 2. adopts the energy of that pagan religion(followers, ceremonies, etc). These are really the same thing.
- How are the Homeric hyms and the biblical styles different? The Homeric hyms give all possible details and the biblical styles say as few details as possible.
- Frye makes the point that there is no moral for biblical stories. The moral of the story is the story. The entire parabel is the story and not reducible to "the point". "The point" of the parabel is the experience of the parabel, both inside the story and for the reader/listener.
- J list - Abraham, Isaac(means "laughter"), Joshua, Moses, Samual, Saul, David
- Know the story about Josheph and his Brothers
- 2 Kingdoms, Northern Israel where the name of god is "Elohiem" and Southern Judeah where the name of god is "Yahweh"
- Be prepared to answer the question "What do you know now about the tension between the biblical and classical traditions and what difference does it make?" It will probably appear in short answer or essay form.
Vocab and Definitions: check out dictionary.com and wikipedia.org where my notes are missing information. I'm not gonna do ALL of your work for you!
- Centripital - Reader making sense of the world
- Centrifugal - Sourcing for the word outside of the text
- Perfunctory -
- Theodicy - (theo, god - dicy, justice) about why do we suffer, gods justice, we don't understand
- Theocentric - god centered
- Documentary Hypothosis -
- Metaphor -
- Repetative Parallels -
- Repetition -
- of Frye's 4 modes, Kerygmatic - Speculative, Romantic, Metaphysical, Mythological, Immagination, Messege, Proclomation
- Poesies - mindset/art of making poetry
- Hieroglyphic - Hier, sacred and glyph, pictures - a special type of language
- Onomatopoeia - words that sound like their meanings, "Woosh" and "Howl", wind blowing and YHWH
- Anthropomorphism -
- Anthropocentrism -
- "Biblical Perportions" - "a scene right out of the bible"
- Iconoclastic -
- Metempsychosis - transmigration of souls
- Apocalypes - unveiling, revealing, revelation
- Misprision - word mistake, lovely class Misprisions are 1."The sun comes up over a sentimental cup over lard"(Cheryl Crow) 2."You're the key to my peace of pie"(Shania Twain) 3."Charles Intestine"(MS)
- Prolix - abundant
- Synonyymous Parallelism -
- Antithetical -
- Paratactic - it is a type of speach and it uses "and" frequently with purpose and intention and little kids often use it and I'm using it right now and that proves my point.
- Mnemosyne - 9 daughters of memory
- Lethia - forget
- Alethia - unforgetting
- Aros - love, driving procreative force
- Heirogamy - many gods/sacred things
- Sacrifice - make sacred
- Homeopathy - world of the sacred
- Animate - spirit/life
- Inanimate - lacking spirit/life
