Get your Northrop Frye, "The Great Code." -Northrop Frye is an amazing literary critic and writer, and writes in a manner thats is much more friendly than other literary critics.
Carl Eats Little Whiny Pets w/ Gravy Asparagus!
Check out website www.bartleby.com/108 for an entire online version of The King James Bible.
Psalms 51; Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon.
Repetitive Parallelism is a feature of hebrew poetry in which one term is balanced by another term that creates a rhythm and makes it easier to remember. The way Shakespeare writes, the same thing twice, once for the idiots, once for the intellectuals.
Great Commentary by Roy Goodman about his 12-year-old solo
Vico's stages of language: 1. Metaphorical (age of gods) 2. Metonymy (age of aristocrats) 3. Demotic (age of men);
Ovid's Myth of declining ages: 1. Gold 2. Silver 3. Bronze - where we're at now.
Roy became metaphorical when he said he was transformed into an angel.
Keyword of the class: Myth The bible is full of mythological material, especially Genesis.
Documentary Hypothesis: the first five books were not written by Moses, but by four editors/writers using different literary techniques. They are J (Jawist), E (Elohist), D (Deuteronomist), and P (Priest).
Logos = words, but does not necessarily mean 'the study of;' Jon uses logos - the divinity that is in the speaking of the thing that causes it to come into being.
When we're children we understand the power of words, that when we speak we are creating. Children purposefully don't say words because they fear it might come true.
