How come you're taking that class, if you don't mind me asking?
Though it could be fun, there's a lot of older Egyptian/Canaanite stuff buried in the OT such as the purity laws, the fact that it's dangerous for Moses to look at Yahweh, etc. I liked studying the OT when I was a Christian, but the NT, the one I was supposed to get all the theological goodness from, bored me. I liked the smiting, war and action of the OT. And I turned out to be Sekhmet's daughter. Go fig.
You just gotta look at things from a "this is a foreign, Near Eastern, bronze age culture" perspective, not a "these are basically 20th century Americans in funny robes" perspective like most people are unfortunately taught.
I'm taking it because it's a required course for my religion minor :P Same with History of the New Testament.
Seems like most of this will be studying not factualness vs. fiction of the books, but more of the stories and the symbology, as well as translations and issues with using archaic languages as a base.
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How come you're taking that class, if you don't mind me asking?
Though it could be fun, there's a lot of older Egyptian/Canaanite stuff buried in the OT such as the purity laws, the fact that it's dangerous for Moses to look at Yahweh, etc. I liked studying the OT when I was a Christian, but the NT, the one I was supposed to get all the theological goodness from, bored me. I liked the smiting, war and action of the OT. And I turned out to be Sekhmet's daughter. Go fig.
You just gotta look at things from a "this is a foreign, Near Eastern, bronze age culture" perspective, not a "these are basically 20th century Americans in funny robes" perspective like most people are unfortunately taught.
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Seems like most of this will be studying not factualness vs. fiction of the books, but more of the stories and the symbology, as well as translations and issues with using archaic languages as a base.
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