REL 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Documentary Hypothesis, Elohist, Suzerainty
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Social-critical analysis: social scientific criticism, feminist criticism, socioeconomic criticism. New literary methods: canonical criticism, rhetorical criticism, etc. When reading the bible, remember to read as a literary text. Some people take things as figure of speech, and some take it literally. This is often the issue, and the cause for disputes. Five themes of genesis 1-11: creation: enuma elish; atrahasis epic, 1:1~2:4a // 2:4b~25, sin"s consequence, murder, flood, nations/languages. Genealogy will determine opportunities such as this. Ancient oriental literature: not as detail-oriented as western civilization: explains discrepancies, or things that may seem that was skipped around. J (abbreviation) yahwist (in german, y becomes j) Deuteronomy is a literary work in and of itself. Moses introduces yahwist , so elohist didn"t use yahwe until moses" time. Yahwe narrative, whereas eloheim lists, genealogy. Enuma elish; atrahasis epic: religio-historical criticism example, god destroys tiamat in the epic.
