RELG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sennacherib

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 202
• Professor: Gerbern Oegema

Document Summary

These texts still function thousands of years later we can still relate to the stories and the characters! The moral and the likeability of the characters is huge. The text wants to promote certain values and it does so through real people. Our own cultural religious background uses this text so we inherently relate it reproduces our own values transmits education from one generation to the next. The bible is full of real live events that we can use as examples of how to act in a similar situation: a legal aspect too! (in addition to moral, educational, values and traditional sense) Biblical scholars use logic thinking to come to the same conclusions that we have based on text analysis. List of kings page 35 coursepack texts show emphasis on kings. Dutamystic history and theoglogy sayd that we sinned and thus were punished. Yes family and tradition and community played a role, but.