Questions for Review Chapter 3 1.) What levels of meaning can be found in Genesis 1.1-2.4a? From Genesis 1.1-2.4a it can be discerned that God is the creator of all. He created the world and its inhabitants from a vast nothingness. The text reflects upon who God is and what His capabilities are through the act of creation. The verses allow that God is communicating with us. It is communicated what Gods will is for man and gives us a history of our beginnings. From the data provided in the
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I know we read in the lecture about the fall of the matriarchal society‚ and I recall noticing a theme with a similar effect in Beowulf. However‚ the brash display seen in the Enuma Elish surprised me. The background stated that Tiamat had been previously known as the loving mother who was the ruler of the universe‚ implying that she was beloved by her people and accepted as a mother figure (4-5). Though‚ by the end of the myth‚ it is clear tides for her had changed. Tiamat’s death is gruesome;
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Introduction Mesopotamia as ‘the cradle of civilization” was one of the first civilizations- in the modern sense of the word‚ to arise. It is understandable then that it set the standards for what government‚ religion‚ art and culture should be for the countless civilizations that followed it. Their system of government in particular left a huge impression on how later civilizations wrote laws judging the behavior of the people‚ in fact historians agree that Hammurabi’s code of law- although somewhat
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’How do the writers of the bible explain the concepts of God as creater?’ In the bible there is two main creation stories; genesis one and genesis two. Each of these are very different concepts of God as creater. In genesis one the world is created by God in six days‚ and on the seveneth day God rests. On the first day God created light‚ on the second day God created day and night‚ on the third day God created earth‚ on the fourth day God created sky‚ on the fifth day God created sea and fish
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The Greek Creation Myth I’ll be examining cosmogonic Greek myths. The Theogony‚ a poem written around 700 B.C. by Hesiod‚ states that from the vast expanse of nothingness called Chaos arose Gaia. Gaia is female and first into being. Her existence not deliberate‚ but magically occurs for no stated purpose. Gaia gives birth to a son‚ Uranus without the assistance of any other deity. Uranus is the sky and Gaia who is the earth‚ mates with her son to bring forth the 12 Titans. There were six male Titans;
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RELS 2001 Midterm Study Guide Spring 2013 Date: 7/2 You are required to bring Blue Books for the exam. They are available at the Student Government Office (4th floor‚ University Center‚ right above the bookstore) for free. I will collect all your Blue Books and redistribute them before the exam. Also‚ you will be strictly required to leave all your cell phones and bags (along with all reading materials) in the front of the class. Any kind of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated
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tart with our self’s‚ this how we change the world‚ but this a broad answer. Thru my analytical argument four work literary lost to millenniums will be used too make an argument‚ the four ancient stories are‚ The Buddha: Sermon at Benares‚ The Enuma Elish‚ and Plato: The Allegory of the Cave‚ Matthew 13.
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Mesopotamia (1) Some of the Mesopotamia cities were Ur‚ Hatra‚ Samarra‚ Nineveh‚ Lasgash‚ Nasiriyah‚ Assur‚ etc. The people within the cities were well known for the metal work‚ wooden textiles‚ and stoneware. (2) Mesopotamia’s government is known as theocracy‚ it consisted of each city having its own chief‚ working under a single ruler. (3) The Mesopotamia’s religion was polytheistic‚ the people strongly had a belief that the ziggurats connected heaven and earth. The gods or goddesses had
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Compare any two myths from different regions; focus on similarities with epic heroes or similar creation myths. I’m going to compare the Enuma Elish‚ the Babylonian creation myth to the Creation of Titans and the Gods‚ the Greek creation myth. The first similarity between the two is pretty obvious; they are both creation myths. All of the gods in both myths are related to some part of the naturalness of the earth. For instance‚ god of the sky (Zeus‚ Anu)‚ god of the waters (Apsu‚ Tiamat‚ Poseidon)
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CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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