Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 10: Comp Lit Lecture Genesis & Exodus
15 Mar 2016
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Human beings are caught in temporality: in god"s creation there no temporal space god speaks and what he speaks is created. Western culture finds its roots in what we now call the middle east: the bible dominates western consciousness. The hebrew bible // the old testament (in christianity, declares it incomplete in order to continue its values & stories) Books of the bible have everything: primordial history, divine history, prophecy, chronicles, erotic poetry, songs, genealogies, books of laws, etc. Romans view east (greece, europe) as being overly lush (lazy, live a dream-like life: jewish culture feels the same way, but about egypt, after the incident and loss of eden, lush places are all under suspect. Any lush and beautiful place is a reference to eden. The bible is a mass of many different languages: hebrew bible: divided into three parts. Written in hebrew, except for few parts which are in aramaic. The writings (psalms - 2 chronicles: christian bible.
