RELIGST 3N03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jewish Holidays, Messiah In Judaism
14 Apr 2014
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First section: introduces theology, theological shape of the gospel how everything is put together in order to communicate the message. Second section: brief overview; history of theology, answered in diff ways. Stone vessels: used because they don"t implicate impurity: used in more communal groups or communal settings. Some things are explained, some are not not specifically aimed at any audience. Theology presented through a narrative via: historical questions, literary questions. One method is to look at poetics the building blocks of the text, how it is being presented / puts everything together. Rhetoric a literary way of presenting an argument; pejorative, negative sense: eg. Taking on propaganda. : one can be fooled with rhetoric arguing a case for somebody, rhetoric isn"t necessarily bad, trying to present something to the reader. Both writers and readers of history should focus not just on the description of events, but also on what occurred before, during, and after the events.
