THEO 3715 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Yeezus, Matisyahu, Head Writer
10 Sep 2015
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Understanding a text and the interpretations of the text. Reader"s triangle text author reader. The author means one thing, the reader takes something different away and the text still has more to offer. Exa: the constitution, huckleberry fin (twain"s use of n-word was different than the way it is received) Ways in which the understanding of a text is lived. The way that mother mary functions on a personal level compared to a theological level. The author didn"t intend for this stuff to happen, the way it was understood at a popular level was different than that. Culture and religion interact and define one another. Our culture is mostly christian so we are all held to social norms regardless of our individual religion. Matisyahu orthodox jewish reggae rapper bob marley most famous album exodus. King without a crown reference to god (we do not know if god has a crown or not) orthodox jew would not be talking about jc.
