{"id":127,"date":"2020-09-04T02:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=127"},"modified":"2020-09-04T02:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:02:45","slug":"genres-and-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/09\/04\/genres-and-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Genres and Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from <em>Back Door Introduction to the Bible <\/em>was, \u201cSo J. K. Rowling doesn\u2019t feel it necessary to say, \u201cHey folks, this is fiction\u201d at the start of every Harry Potter novel. She assumes her readers know that.\u201d It put things into perspective for me that the Bible is a compilation of works from people of different backgrounds and from different times. Passages in the Bible are not necessarily in the order they were written, nor do the authors of each passage clearly state what they are writing is either fact or fiction. So, assuming the Bible is one genre may cause some confusion when interpreting the text for one\u2019s self. The story of Adam and Eve speaking to a talking serpent and eating the forbidden fruit reads more like one of Aesop\u2019s fables than a historical document. The compilation of authors in the Bible assume the reader knows the difference between a fable and reality<\/p>\n<p>I found it interesting in <em>Valiant or Virtuous? <\/em>that English translations of the Bible like to use different words when describing men and women opposed to Hebrew and Greek versions of the Bible. Whether or not this is a result of differing societal gender roles imposed by each translation\u2019s respective culture would require extensive research best suited for a project outside of this blog. Greek and Hebrew versions of the Bible use the same adjective to describe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 valiant men and women (chayil in Hebrew and andreia in Greek), but the adjectives change in English translations when describing women. Changing valiant to \u2018distinguished\u2019 or \u2018excellent\u2019 when describing women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from Back Door Introduction to the Bible was, \u201cSo J. K. Rowling doesn\u2019t feel it necessary to say, \u201cHey folks, this is fiction\u201d at the start of every Harry Potter novel. She assumes her readers know that.\u201d It put things into perspective for me that the Bible is a compilation of works from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}