week 4 extra

 

Overview

The primary purpose of the exercise is to build confidence in the ability you already have to interpret a "text," and to reveal some of the challenges when we don't know the full "backstory."

Instructions

Strangely enough, one of the best practices or "labs" for successfully interpreting a text (including the Bible) is by remembering and rehearsing something you already do well: Interpreting a song.  When we listen to/read a new song for the first time, it is a great practice in reading and interpreting a "text" using the Three Worlds.

I assume the song below will be a new song to many of you, if not all of you. Good; it was the same way with Philemon. At least this week, you have the lyrics, as you do in the Bible.

This song tends to help with Philemon,  We will tell why next week!

There are no second first reads. You will see/hear things that I miss. And it's okay of you feel you don't get much. Use the usual skills: recurrences? mood? theme? storyline? characters? clues as to message/backstory that occasioned it?

Lyrics and music below. Don't Google or research the song. Just listen, read, and make notes below. Include what you would guess the song is about (be as specific as possible: who and what is being addressed, what's happening

First, watch the first version of the song, and comment below on what you caught: lyrics, repeated words, any clues to theme, mood, story, characters. Do not Google the song until next week when we debrief this. 

Then be prepared , watch the second version of the song in. . Make comments there, especially about how the two versions compare and contrast: has anything been changed or moved? Is one happier? Which one do you like better and why? Which would be better for church? 

 

 

Lyrics and music below. Don't Google or research the song.  Just listen, read, and make notes below.  Include what you would guess the song is about (be as specific as possible:  who is being addressed, what's happening)

 

Version A

Morning, your toast
Your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day
Like a knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight
There’s no healing, no no

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

 

VERSION B:

You'll remember from our look at the TWO creation stories and the TWO sets of Ten Commandments, that when we have two texts, it is helpful to compare and contrast.

Here is an alternate version of the same song as part a ).  The lyrics are different; music mostly the same.

Read and listen, and then post below.  do NOT do any research, just what you pick up.

Address;

 

• Similarities, differences between the two
• Which version do you like better and why?
• What you think this version is about: who is speaking to who, what is the story and situation?

 

 

Wake
In the morning when you wake up
You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you

Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child

 

  

Overview

This is a quick self-test to let you know how you might do on your signature paper with mechanical errors.  Remember, papers cannot be accepted if they have mechanical errors in every paragraph.  Also, remember   no use of "you"/"your" or contractions in signature.

 (if you didn't do it last week)

 

Instructions

 

Watch thisLinks to an external site.  short video, and LOL at Dave.

As you'll remember, for Bib classes, there are two big rules on signature papers: 

 

--you can't use "you" (or "you words like"your" or "yourself")

--you can't use contractions.

Also, if there are red marks in every paragraph for mechanical (grammar, spelling, etc), your paper will need to be rewritten before it is accepted.

 

 

 

a) Take this quick test to see how well you will do on mechanical errors on signature paper. 

Read this sample signature paper  excerpt below, and either copy it  into comments below , making corrections in red, or noting them and correcting them..

Don't look at the self-grading video until done.

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Not since Moses’s day had there been a leader like Paul.  In a sense, Paul 

was the most important leader mentioned in the bible.  Not only was he an 

Apostle, but the most prominent  and clear headed one ever mentioned by 

God in his Word.   Maybe the most prominent character in Christianity’s 

history.  Due to his special calling, his ability to face prosecution and abuse,

 his status as an Elder and his great Faith, he ranks highly, even though he is 
not one of the original 12 Disciples, and wasn’t even mentioned in the 

Biblical texts that discuss Jesus’s earthly days.

In a way, you could compare him to today’s Pope, or the President of the 

United States—or more appropriately, the Senior Pastor of a large church or

 the Bishop of a denomination.  Think of him like a modern Saint, a person 

that has great Spiritual courage and skill.  A person that  loves God and His

 ways.  Which makes him all the more remarkeable in the way he treated 

Onesimus’s owner, Philemon.  Philemon was a humble man, that had a 

Church in his house, and that owned Philemon as a slave.    In its own 

unique way, the paradox of Paul the great leader being kind and 

compassionate to people of lower Economic status like Onesimus (a lowly 

Slave) shows that he was also a great sheperd not one who would Lord it 

over people.  He had no allusions of being the King.

Let's examine in detail the world of Paul, Philemon and Onesimus--the 3 

key players in a story with abundent  lessons for our day.  In a funny verse,

 the Bible says "a dog returns to it's own vomit."     Thinking about an 


animal being attracted to there own vomit is a strong image and thought 

provoking. This remind's me of  the religous leaders Jesus confronted in the 

Temple.  One Sunday, my Pastor preached on this.  Matthew 11:15, " Jesus 

said, "My house shall be a House of prayer, but you have made it a den of 

robbers."  When people think they're more imporatnt then others based on 

Religion or Race,  the affect is  divine anger.  I have thought alot about why

 Followers of God would ever think they are holier then other people.   Or 

how they could justify hating a person that was innocent or poorer then 

them.  It's a mystery to me, and a headscratching one at that.   I sometimes 

literally loose my mind over things like these.

Think about someone that dessecrated the Alter of a Church, or think's it's 

alright to have a prejudist attitude.  What an extordinary embarassment for 

priviledged people to act that way; witholding grace from a person that is in 

need.  Our professor talked about this one day when we did a practise for this 
signature assignment.

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b)DON'T GO ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE CORRECTIONS.. 

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Post a sentence about how you did.

 

 

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 The first half of the film takes you through 54 minute :35 second mark in the YouTube you see here,  That is, stop after the audience throws soap, and Bell asks "Are there any Johnny Cash fans here?"). 

 We will watch second half next week under 5.4, so click there if you want to watch the whole thing at once, and see the questions for the second half.

(OR you can split up the two parts of this movie any way you like, as long as you finish it be next week .  It's designed for you to watch half this week, and half next, but do what works best for you: none this week, all next; some of the first half now, the rest bext week, anyway combo is OK)

Note: As an alternative, you are welcome to post a video where you orally give  the same content, instead of writing it here.

See questions to include somewhere in your response below.

 

--Include a comment about insulators.

 

-- From the intro:  Note the way he told the Prodigal Son story . Why do you think Jesus told it that way?  What might all this have to do with the theme of suffering?

--Include a comment about insulators.

--What did he say about text and context?

--What is the first art of suffering?  .  What  (specifically) might you remember a year from now from this section, and why? Do your best to give a personal story or example  that came to mind of how you have seen this art in your own life.

--What is the second art?  .  What ( specifically) might you remember a year from now from this section, and why? Do your best to give a personal story or example  that came to mind of how you have seen this art in your own life

 

---Before  watching the 2nd half of the film next week (Or whenever you watch it), guess now  what the other 4 arts of suffering might be.  No worries if you don't guess correctly--your answers might be better than his!  Here's some clues (first letters).  They are all one word each; and it might help to think of them as (sometimes) sequential.  Clues below (they are all one word,  and first letter given).  Post (or write down your guesses) 

Part one:

D

H

E

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Part 2:

S

 

P

 

F

 

IDEO B

EXTRA CREDIT ! Follow-up:Sleep Like a BabyLinks to an external site.

This is an extra cred .
 Such excellent work interpreting both versions of the "Sleep Like a Baby"   song.  
Usually, NO ONE  specifically posted the specific kind of  "historical world" situation that the song is about. Read this quote by the songwriter about the song on the video screenshot below..  Then play the video where I give the reveal.  Sure miss having  class discussions, so love to hear some comments in response about the reveal.   You can post below if you are reading this .  Optional, but extra cred if you comment on the reveal, why most never see the "open secret," what you learn about interpreting a text, and the shocking and subversive subject matter of the song.

Also, usually 1-2 students per class find they have had this song on their phone or computer for years  and didn't know it!!  Play  the video to find out why, then search your phone (:

 

week 3 extyra

 Headsup One of the best ways to PRACTICE interpreting a text is by doing in class something you do all the time:

Interpreting the text of a song/music video..especially when you can "Venn it" with two versions.

Notes from previous cohorts on the 2 versions of the song:

 

Songs as text:  SLEEP LIKE A BABY

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Sleep Like a Baby version 1

Morning, your toast
Your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day
Like a knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns   like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight
There’s no healing, no no

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

 "Sleep Like A Baby   ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE VERSION

In the morning when you wake up

You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you

Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child

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a) Respond to the "controversial" part.  Mention what part it was, and how you reacted when you first heard it

b) Is this a "Christian" song?  How do you make that decision.  Should/could it be played or sung in church?  Why/Why not?

c)The singer clearly placed this song in the "lament" tradition.  What is being lamented?

 

d) Other  observations, questions,  personal connections,  or  connections to other lessons from class.

 

week 1 fall 24 BP

 

Classroom Content and response (4O pts); 2 replies (10 pts)

Fun preview of this week:  And this video contains an extra credit challenge:

 

Required Texts 

*Coogan, Michael D., ed. The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NOAB).  4th Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.  

*Brettler, Marc. How to Read the Jewish Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  

 

 

Chapman, Erie.  Radical Loving Care: Building the Healing Hospital in America.  Nashville: Baptist Healing Hospital Trust, 2007 

Chapman, Erie.  Inside Radical Loving Care: The Power of The Mother Test.: Kingston Springs: Westview. Baptist Healing Hospital Trust, 2013 

 

*denotes textbooks used in BIB 314 

 

 

Answer in your mind: What color is a YIELD sign? (the road sign) 

 After you have answered, watch this vLinks to an external site.ideo, then come back here and make a brief  post in response

 

n addition to the  required texting assignment you will read about below, post a short response below that shows you integrated this teaching. Mention something specific from each video. 

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These FPU Bible classes are famous (and infamous), and have  been for years. For decades, everyone has had to take a version of this class. There is some fear involved.

At first, it can be hard to get a handle on what these classes are about. If you are not well-versed (pun intended!) in the Bible and its background, you may worry you are not equipped.

It sure scared me to register for it!

Here's a pic of me in my main campus dorm room  c. 1983, writing my signature paper for this class on something called a typewriter.

I think it helps to know that all of us are already experts in the key discipline needed in this class: texting!

I know what you're likely thinking: "Huh?  Texting??"

FPU professor (and 'textpert') Greg CampLinks to an external site. introduced the brilliant idea of having students text the instructor during class as a way of demonstrating that we all are experienced in sending and receiving messages...and reading texts, and discerning context and subtext etc.  We all intuitively use the skills of what we will call "The Three Worlds" in making sense of messages we receive/read. 

This will prepare us for the reading of our textbooks, especially the "text" of the Bible.

What is  a 'TEXT'?
TEXT:  the word does not  anymore mean just written words, or text message.

a TEXT is

 "any message,

                    in any medium,

                                 designed to communicate anything"

... so obviously the Bible counts as a "TEXT message."

We will be reading the Bible..and even if it is a new book to you, and even if you are not a  believer, you are already a good interpreter of texts.  

You do it every day.

Watch this video, which should help.  Be sure to follow the instructions you will hear at the beginning.:

 

 

When you interpret a text, it can be crucial to discern emotion, volume, atmosphere, tone, context and "CONTEXTURE" (atmosphere, tone).

 

Watch this video as an example of 'contexture':

 

 

 

 

 

After reading the above, and watching the videos, do the following:

1)Post a short response below that shows you integrated this teaching. Mention something specific from each video.

2) Send your instructor a random text message (if you haven't already) as he instructed on the video. His number is in the video . It can be anything!   TEXT it, do not post it here;  

• Make it fun if you like.
• Maybe the very next text message you receive would be interesting?! 
• The instructor will post or read some of these later.
• Do not skip this assignment. (:

These texts will become our curriculum as we interpret them. Remember the "Three Worlds" concept your instructor talked about in the video (review just the 2 min to 3 minute mark).  The worlds help us interpret a text in context and "contexture," and are the key approach we take in FPU Bible classes to interpret texts, especially the Bible.

 

ach week, we will introduce a :literary symbol or "SIGN" that is significant (SIGNificant) in interpreting any text, especially the Bible. This week is CHIASM.

Instructions

Watch this short video on chiasm, and post your answers to the questions posted below it.

a)List at least two examples of chiasm used in the video .

b)List at least two examples of chiasm you find online, create, or know of (that were not used in video).

c)Talk about chiasm. Is this a new idea/term for you? Interesting? Why or why not? How might catching chiasm help you in reading the Bible, or any text?

 

 

ead the book of Philemon from the Bible. It is very short. 

It's in your class Bible, or posted below.

 Read it a few times, maybe listen to it here below on the YouTube audio..

Then post some impressions, feelings, observations, questions about what it seems to be about, Mention repeated words, ideas, anything.  No pressure.  Don't research it,

This will be the text for your final signature paper, but no need to worry or jump ahead.  Just get what you can out of this first read.

The Letter to Philemon:

 

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

      and Timothy our brother,

 

        To  Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker

   also to Apphia our sister and

               Archippus our fellow soldier

                                            —and to the church 

                                    that meets in your home:

3 Grace and peace 

to you (plural) 

                                                  from God our Father

                                               and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

          5 because I hear about your  

 

                                   love               and                          faith

     towards                 Lord Jesus     and               all the saints    

 

6 I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective 

                in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ.

7 Your love has given me great       joy

                                         and        encouragement,

 because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints. 

 

8 Therefore

 although in Christ I could be bold, and order you to do what you ought to do,

                                                                            9 yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love.

 It is as none other than Paul—                   an old man (elder)

  and now also                                             a prisoner of Christ Jesus—     

10 that I appeal to you for my son--

                                          Onesimus,["Useful"]" 

                  

 who became my son while I was in chains.

 

11 Formerly he was                           useless                                  to you,

 but now he has become                   useful                            both to you and to me.

 

12 I am sending                         him

                    —who is my very heart

                                                    —back to you.     

13 I would have liked to keep him with me

 so that 

                                           he                  could take 

                                           your                   place 

                 in helping          me 

while I am in chains for the gospel.     

14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, 

so that any favor you do would not seem                forced 

                                            but would be             voluntary.     

15 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while

 was that you might have him back forever—

        16 no longer as a slave,

                  but more than a slave, 

                               as a dear brother. 

He is that to                                  me, 

             but even more so to         you, 

 

both                         in the flesh

 and                         in the Lord.

 

17 So..

 

 if                                            you consider me a partner, 

                               welcome  him

          as you would welcome me.

 18 If he has done you any wrong or owes          you                      anything,

                                           charge it to                me.

19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand:

                      I will pay it back!

                         (not to mention that you owe me your very self)

 20 I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit or usefulness from you in the Lord;

                                   refresh my heart in Christ.

 

 21 Confident of your obedience, 

              I write to you,

                          knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

22 And one thing more: 

             Prepare a guest room for me, 

                            because I hope to be restored to you     

                                                   in answer to your   prayers.

 

23 Epaphras,

 my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, 

sends you greetings. 

 24 And so do Mark,

                       Aristarchus,

                        Demas 

                  and Luke, 

                                      my fellow workers.

25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your  () spirit.

 

 

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Instructions

Part a)Even many people well-seasoned in the Bible don't realize there are two accounts (not one) of creation in the Bible.  A helpful Three Worlds discipline to hone is this: when there are more than one version of a story (ex. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all tell the story of the miraculous feeding), it is productive to compare and contrast accounts. Read the first account of creation in Genesis Chapter 1, continuing through Genesis 2:4.  Then read the second account (beginning with Genesis 2.4 through the end of chapter 2. What are the characteristics of each account?  How are they the same/different?  Did they feel like they were written in different styles, genres, even by different writers?  Jot down some informal notes about your observations in the forum below, bullet points might be helpful.  R

Part b) Do this part  only after completing notes on  part a, but before publishing your post /

Glance at the faculty notes on  Two Creation Accounts in forum below this.  Regarding the item printed in red there: answer below in your post whether  or not you noticed that as you made .  Comment on the power of not missing significant observations/differences in reading texts, and in life in general.

Grading

5 Points

Due Date & Time

Sunday before 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time

 

1.6 Journal: Two Creation Accounts (by Sun pm)

 

Excerpts from the Babylonian Creation Account

Outside of the Bible, there were other stories circulating  in the ancient world about how creation happened. Here is a popular one of the day.  Glance at it now, and make some mental notes about what it makes you think, how it makes you feel.  Ask yourself if you are glad this is not the Bible's version of the story. Be prepared to revisit this account  in this week's  "Movie Night: Everything is Spiritual"

It's in your syllabus  and printed below.

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Excerpts from the Babylonian Creation Account (required reading for Week 1)

In the following translation, parentheses enclose words that have no equivalent in the original but have been added for fluency or intelligibility. Words in brackets are restorations. (?) is added to words of uncertain meaning. Ellipses due to breaks in the original or due to the unintelligibility of the text are marked.... Words that are underlined are transliterations from the original language.

Reading 1

When above the heaven had not (yet) been named, (and) below the earth had not (yet) been called by a name; (when) Apus primeval, their begetter, Sununu, (and) Tiamat, she who gave birth to them all, (still) mingled their waters together, And no pasture land had been formed (and) not (even) a reed marsh was to be seen; When none of the (other) gods had been brought into being, (When) they had not (yet) been called by (their) name(s, and their) destinies had not (yet) been fixed, (At that time) were gods create within them.

Reading 2

Morduch, thou art (the most) important among the great gods,

Thy destiny is unequaled, thy command is (like that of) Anu.

From this day onward thy command shall not be changed.

To exalt and to abase -- this shall be thy power!

Dependable shall be the utterance of thy mouth, thy command shall not prove vain.

Reading 3

They gave him an irresistible weapon smiting the enemy, (saying:)

"Go and cut off the life of Tiamat. May the winds carry her blood to the out-of-the-way places.”

After the gods his fathers determined the destiny of Bel,

They set him on the road -- the way to success and attainment.

He made a bow and decreed (it) as his weapon;

An arrowhead he put (on the arrow and) fastened the bowstring to it.

He took up the club and grasped (it) in his right hand;

The bow and the quiver he hung at his side.

The lightning he set before him;

With a blazing flame he filled his body.

He made a net to enclose Tiamat within (it),

(And) had the four winds take hold that nothing of her might escape;

The south wind, the north wind, the east wind, (and) the west wind,

The gift of his (grand)father, Anu, he caused to draw high to the border(s) of the net.

He created imhullu: the evil wind, the cyclone, the hurricane,

The fourfold wind, the sevenfold wind, the whirlwind, the wind incomparable.

He sent forth the winds which he had created, the seven of them;

To trouble Tiamat within, they arose behind him.

Reading 4

and then he returned to Tiamat, whom he had subdued.

The Lord trod upon the hinder part of Tiamat.

And with his unsparing club he split (her) skull.

He cut the arteries of her blood

And caused the north wind to carry (it) to out-of-the-way places.

When his fathers saw (this), they were glad and rejoiced

(And) sent him dues (and) greeting gifts.

The Lord rested, examining her dead body,

To divide the abortion (and) to create ingenious things (therewith).

He split her open like a mussel (?) into two (parts);

Half of her set in place and formed the sky (therewith) as a roof.

He fixed the crossbar (and) posted guards;

(He loved his HCA program at FPU…)

He commanded them not to let her waters escape....

 

 

Translation from Alexander Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis, University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed., 1951, as quoted in Norman K. Gottwald, A Light to the Nations. Harper and Row Publishers, 1959.   Online as a PDF file at http://tiny.cc/bib314babyloniangenesis

Recommended to finish 1.6 before reading this

 

 

Greg Camp and Laura Roberts (FPU faculty) note:

 

The two accounts are separate but complementary, like the four gospels. They can be read at different levels, from literal to figurative, with no bearing on the truth of it. Poetry is not less true than a newspaper, just a different kind or mode of truth. And, one must always ask the question what the implied author intended and what the implied audience would have understood. Ancient notions of history are very different from ours.

Genesis 1:

repetitious, tabular, formal

days of creation reported in the same way, formulaic

authority and brevity

style of ordering material into a series of similar solemn commands are unchallenged

content presents major divisions of creation known to writer

catalog or tabulation of events and commands

vocabulary = create (bara), humanity as likeness/image, male/female

DIFFERENT NAME FOR GOD USED IN THE TWO ACCOUNTS,  IN GENESIS 1, God = "God" (Hebrew word is  Elohim, characterized as powerful cosmic organizer, speaks things into being, stands outside of cosmos and controls it

Humanity = created as vice regent, created in image gives representative status

polemic against mythical concepts of life and creation

Genesis 2:

relationship of characters emphasized

language is picturesque and flowing, poetic terms, colorful

God's actions more interrelated than separated by divisions of time or set expressions (idioms)

no two acts are alike and none are preceded by divine command

vocabulary = form (yasar), humanity as living being, man/woman

DIFFERENT NAME FOR GOD USED IN THE TWO ACCOUNTS,  IN GENESIS 2,God = "Lord God" (In Hebrew  language, "Yahweh," characterized by immanence, personal nearness, involvement on human scene, intimate master, depicted humanly (hands, walking, digging)

Humanity = ready contact with and immediate responsibility to God. Humanity's creation linked to ground (word play on adam = man and adamah = ground) and curse is alienation from the land, is distinctive because Yahweh personally addresses him

polemic against fertility cults in Canaan

You may come to love "Movie Night" in this class.  We will have a film/video here every week.

Highly recommended you watch with someone else (family, friend, class mate).   Large screen and popcorn may help.

Challenge kids or loved ones to watch, and even help with your homework questions on it

Sorry to say that this week's film will be the longest of the entire class by far.  BUT I am almost positive you will enjoy it.

 This week the movie is this Links to an external site."Everything is Spiritual" by Rob Bell.  Consider it the key "lecture" of the week, yet without the pressure to take detailed notes,  just take it in and post on the questions below,  Many students find this a memorable, and many  even  a life-changing video.  Be open.  (Do NOT worry about detail .DON'T stress or even try to get all the content: impossible). 

It is (among other things)  a  complement and follow-up to our discussion on the Three Worlds of the two creation accounts in Genesis (1.4).  Notice the speaker also talks about an alternative ancient creation account.  It is the Babylonian account in your syllabusLinks to an external site. and 1.6, and  reading for Week 1.

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Questions:

 

part a:  BEFORE WATCHING VIDEO, Take a look at the picture posted here  of the "Everything is Spiritual" video's "outline" (if you don't see any picture,  or want to enlarge picture, click this).Links to an external site. In your mind, does it make any sense? What is the first word or phrase you said/thought when you saw it? What might you guess any of this might mean?  Any clues as to the content?  Post your answer below.

 

Part b:

AFTER answering part a, Watch the "Everything is Spiritual" video below ( Remember: Do NOT worry about detail .DON'T stress or even try to get all the content: impossible). 

Post a few paragraphs   which:

 

--convinces the teacher you watched the whole thing (and didn't copy another student's post)

-- are a significant summary and/or response and/or review  (300 words min)

-Include at some point:

-comment on  what you see as the thesis or the big idea  (put the big idea/thesis in a phrase or a sentence) and  2 or 3 of your favorite parts. 

-Comments on the benefits/drawbacks of an "outline" of a presentation that consists of  signs (pictures, images and whiteboard markings)-- like the one posted above the video.

 

- IMPORTANT: how did the other "other" creation account he mentioned (it is the Babylonian account in your syllabusLinks to an external site. and forum  reading for Week 1)   compare/relate to the biblical account in Genesis ? Fill in the blank with a word or phrase: 

"Maybe the biblical account of creation is meant to __________ the other creation accounts." 

If you listen carefully when he starts talking about the "other" account, this should be easy.  BUT beware, most students get this wrong (even giving an answer opposite the correct one).

Memorizing Philemon part 1 

 

Memorize Philemon Part 1:  You can do it!! 

100 points, 20 points each week, starting week 1

 

I am actually pretty sure that everyone who has done one thing  well has not only done well on the Philemon paper, but got an A, and had a life-changing experience. 

Of course a qualifier: That is no guarantee you will get an A if you do it well.   It's not doing the thing that got the A, it's that doing the thing apparently helped the student "get" and internalize  Philemon so well that it really helped them think deeply about  the paper.

You may groan, or immediately say "No" or "I can't do it!"

But here is the one thing:




Memorize Philemon.



We have offered it as a challenge in several classes now, and now, it is actually required.

So here's how we do it.  It's only 25 verses,  So we do 5 verses at a time; 5 per week. Below you see how to do the first five.
and links to the other parts. 
You get  credit for each of the five sections, and of course more when you complete.  The idea of course is to do it all.
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Overview

YOU CAN DO IT!  Our signature assignment is the very short  New Testament book of the Bible, Philemon.  Find it in your class Bible (NOAB),, using the index, or click here. Links to an external site.  It is also posted at the bottom of this page.

We will be memorizing small chunks (five verses of Philemon each part), and posting a video of us  reciting each  section 

 (or reciting it i on zoom  to the teacher).

 

This week's  part, part one, is only verses 1-5, 

The rest of the parts are here, and you can do them week by week (or  together if you like, or at your own pace)

 

• Week 1. Philemon part 1, hereLinks to an external site. : verses 1-5
•  Week 2 , Philemon part 2, here,Links to an external site.  verses 6-10 
•  Week 3 ,Philemon part 3 hereLinks to an external site.,   verses  11-15
• Week 4, Philemon part 4, hereLinks to an external site., verses  16-20 
• part 5. Philemon  here Links to an external site. verses 20-25

 

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You have arrived  on part 1, verses 1-5 .This will really help you internalize the book, and deepen your eventual paper.

 

Philemon 1     Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker, 

Philemon 2    to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

Philemon 3    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philemon 4    When I remember you  in my prayers, I always thank my God 

Philemon 5    because I hear of your love for all the saints and your faith toward the Lord Jesus. 

Do NOT worry at all yet about studying what it all means as you memorize,   Do NOT use another translation.  Our class Bible translation  is in New Revised Standard Version.

If you are even the least bit intimidated about memorizing the book of Philemon, this will help,

Watch the following video by  St. Todd Vasquez of FPU's Center for Online Learning. He developed an excellent method for memorizing in a way that streamlines the experience and ensures you remember the entire passage equally.  He will give your instructions.


 

Instructions

Follow along with the instructions in the video.

When you are done with the video, choose "Add Journal Entry" and then the blue VidGrid button to record yourself reciting the verses you are responsible for this week.

(or you can  reciting it in class week 2 before or after class or on break  to the teacher.  If so, leave a comment about you choosing that option, so the gradebook doesn't mark you as unsubmitted for this lesson). 

Alternatively, you can login to Vidgrid using the "Enterprise Login" option with your @fresno.edu email address, record yourself reciting the verses, and then copy the URL link and paste the link in your journal entry.  Special Note: If your link, for some reason does not show after pasting it, check to see if it has "https" at the front of the link instead of "http". Take the 's' out and resave and the video should then be viewable.

Grading

Your instructor will be looking for signs that you have actually memorized the verses and are not just reading the passage. Working hard on this each week will ensure you are well prepared for the signature assignment.
20 points each week

Requirements

 

grats on finishing week 1.  Before you know it, you'll be finishing week 2.  I think it's a particularly fun week.,  I hope you do too.  Looking forward.  

 Watch both a) and b) videos below and answer the questions

 

Video a) Hi Naomi. Watch  this video from a prevvious class (ignire the class title and student names ) and  I  give you one "CORE" question to answer below, and an extra credit opportunity.Then move on to the second video and post below

Update to help you answer the extra cred. questions , the one about the S word. : Replay the 1:03:30 mark through the 1:05:45 mark of Bell's  "Everything is spiritual"Links to an external site. as a reminder of how the two accounts relate.  No, he doesn't come out and say the exact word, but it should help

Video b) Be familiar with the three "sets" for the rest of the course, as we will be utilizing them frequently. F or each of the three sets of "set theory" ,post below one example of each of the three sets  and an example  that you yourself create for each of the three sets., Then tell which of the three sets is your favorite and why.

 

 

Video b:

 

 

 

Movie Night: The Ten Commandments are a ___________ 

Watch this interview of  a congressman about the Ten Commandments

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"What are the Ten Commandments, Congressman?"

 

 

Watch this interview by Stephen Colbert with a congressman about the Ten Commandments,.

You can start the video at 1:43.

Then go to the next page..

 

terpreting the Congressman You are always having to interpret "texts' of all kinds.  Whenever we watch a video, interpret a song,  receive text messages or have a conversation, you are intuitively and inevitably trying to interpret the message being sent .And even if you have never heard of The There Worlds until you came to FPU, you are using those skills. So everything is practical practice for reading the text of the Bible in context, especially Philemon. About that video, you might have asked: -Was that real? -Was that really a congressman? -Did he really not know most of the Ten Commandments? Be thinking about how you made your working conclusions to those questions The Colbert Report was a comedy show, and Colbert was playing a character (an arrogant newsman and host, so there is some "unreality" and satire happening, but bottom line; It was real  interview with a real congressman who really didn't know the  real Ten Commandments! Okay, let's move on..next page..
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Here are some words previous students have said for "wedding" Once I had all guys in class, and they all said "open bar" (: Now... wait for it! Did it even cross your mind to put under the first list. (word association about The Ten Commandments) to say the FIRST thing that a Jewish person back in Bible days..or today..say:    WEDDING?    Hmmm...start asking how the Ten Commandments are in any sense like a wedding. In the meantime, click the next page for a quick  laugh before we take a  field trip to defend the thesis that The Ten Commandments are a wedding Your answer
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Video on Ten Commandments as "Wedding" Grab the popcorn! Watch the video. Do not worry about all the details, but look for big picture/thesis.   Then post a response of at least 250 words below, in response to the following questions:    What was interesting/What did you learn?  How did this video make you feel or challenge your assumptions?  Had it ever crossed your mind that the Ten Commandments were (like) a wedding before today?? Give at least two examples of how the commandments are like a wedding. What do you think/feel about this thesis Post below, and then click for one more page