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Fall 2015

Minute Paper 11.19.15

We started off by analyzing biblical text as a whole. We looked at authorship and the Documentary Hypothesis, as well as background …

Aronofsky’s “Noah”

In out group today, we discussed Aronofsky’s Noah and how it rewrites the original story of Noah to relate to our society today. …

Minute Paper 10.29.15

We looked through Genesis itself and analyzed the descriptions of J versus P sources. We worked at splitting up the text between …

Minute Paper 10.15.15

Today we analyzed Levison’s piece contrasting different accounts of creation. Eve tells her own story and presents herself as innocent. We worked …

Apoc. of Moses

Our thesis is: Levison argues that Apoc. of Moses 15-30 differs from Apoc. of Moses 1-14 and 31-43 by exonerating Eve rather …

Scholar Interpretations pt. 2

As a group, we all discussed and agreed with Sarna in saying that Genesis 2 is not another creation story, but a …

Genesis 1-3 :)

Genesis 1-3 stems from a priestly source: lacks a lot of color, focuses on the history and concerns the institutionalization of the …