ENGL 260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Israelites, Joseph Story

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 260
• Professor: Boyarin Shamma

Document Summary

Genesis: god created the world through speech, the repeiive/parallel structure reinforces the idea of the order that god is creaing, themes: Joseph story: god was inacive in this story, in genesis, there is a consistent trend of fathers not being aware of family issues. Elements shared by many biblical stories: characters exhibit human qualiies. Joseph is an anomaly: excludes unimportant details, sidetracks are oten hooks to what will happen later, numbers are signiicant. Old testament poetry: parallelism is prominent, when there are three units, it either escalates or deescalates, uses metaphors and similes, short sentences promote a sense of immediacy, poeic discourse: New testament poetry: much more diverse, interacts with prose secions, has a less concrete texture than the surrounding narraive. Parables: short stories with a message, the few moments of icion from the bible"s perspecive, jesus speaks to the people in parables without explaining them because the people don"t get to understand, ex.