I found Christine Hayes’ lecture on Doublets and Contradictions to be intriguing. I understood and saw the similarities to Adam and Eve. It’s interesting to see how sex makes him godlike and how it was always apart of the plan or seems to be so. This makes me take a step back and look at ourselves as human beings. It’s also interesting that Adam and Eve were only ashamed of their nakedness after defiance. I wonder why this is so? It seems odd to embrace nakedness, and then do a 180 only after getting in trouble. Lastly, an interesting point Hayes made was how god was in control of the flood and not threatened by it. I had never stopped and thought about this part of the story.<\/p>\n
Reading Subversive Sequels was also interesting. I learned about the connections between the Tower of Babel and the midwives of Isreal. In a short summary, they are both oppressive stories surrounding the building of a city and how it is done. It is interesting to see that it is necessary for characters to break rhythm in order to allow new stories.<\/p>\n
The class discussion brought me new insights. I had already noticed the repetitions of Genesis, but never the connections between the days. It was cool to see how the first 3 days were God forming, and the last 3 days were God filling what God had previously formed. This made it make much more sense, and honestly cooler.<\/p>\n
Lastly, a couple cool, random things that were pointed in the discussion are how evil is a byproduct in Babylonian, how genesis truly reflects an ancient view of things, and that the idea of Sabbath was unknown to ancient people. These are all new things to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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