rc3 Flashcards
Phyllis Trible argues that at first Eve is not secondary to and subservient to Adam
Because the description of them before the fall depicts their relationship as harmonious and mutual, with neither having more power than the other.
Circumcision becomes
A ritual marking Abraham’s covenant with God, based on ancient covenant-making rituals that often involved the cutting of flesh.
Frigge writes about two understandings of truth. They are:
Truth as in historically accurate facts; and truth as something that is symbolically true, or true to human experience and to life.
Phyllis Trible argues that maleness is not more important than femaleness because
The concept of maleness is not introduced in the text until a female is on the scene; more than this, perhaps adham (“earth-man”) should be seen as androgynous since male and female are not introduced until both sexes are represented.
The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation myth that
Tells the story of the defeat of the god of chaos Tiamat by Marduk, who becomes the supreme god of the Babylonian pantheon, and then creates the earth from the corpse of Tiamat and humans from the blood of combat.
To stop the building of the tower of Babel, God
Makes all the workers speak a different language so they cannot work together.
A myth is a very important literary genre in the Bible, especially in the opening books of the Bible. The discipline of religious studies uses the word myth in a special sense. As Frigge explains it, a myth
Helps bind a community together by communicating “who we are, who we are meant to be, who we can be.”
Genesis includes how many creation stories?
Two
