LIT 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Potiphar And His Wife, Torah
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Modern theory: oral telling of story resulted in contradiction that god writes the tablets and then moses writes the tablets. Traditional theory: god dictated entire pentateuch to moses, so moses writes in first person while referring to god. Commandments resemble the constitution (preamble, articles, amendments) structurally. Enoch is the only character who is suggested to have immortality (afterlife) Do people really have free will or does god control them: ex. God hardening the heart of the pharaoh, counter ex. God killing the people with the flood because they have become unruly. People to remember from exodus: pharaoh"s daughter, moses, aaron, miriam, joshua, god"s personal name: i am mighty, i, your lord god. People to remember from genesis: adam, eve, cain, abel, enoch, methusula, noah, abraham, ham, canaan, lot, sarah, rachel, leah, hagar, jacob/isreal, ishmael, esau, tamar, dina, rebekah, judah, levi, potiphar, potiphar"s wife.
