Repetative Parallelism

Here is some random stuff that I found on Repetative Parallelism- Nothing Concrete- just some references:

Parallelism runs over us like as series of waves driving the message home. There are different kinds of parallelism:
semantic parallelism
Synonomous parallelism (e.g. Ps. 2)
Identical - Ps.24:1
Similar - Ps.19:2
Antithetic parallelism - Ps.1:6; Prov.10:1
The thesis & antithesis are making the same point.
Synthetic/Constructive parallelism (everything that doesn't fit the other patterns)
Completion (a parallelism of rhythm rather than of meaning) - Ps.2:6
Comparison - Prov.15:17
Reason - Prov.26:4
Climactic or repetitive parallelism - Ps.29:1
Emblematic parallelism - Prov. 25:25, 11:22, Ps. 26:2, 42:1
The use of imagery in conjunction with parallelism.
Pivot pattern - Ps. 98:2
A clause is shared between two lines.
Chiasm (e.g. Ps1:1,6)
The entire 2nd Psalm is a chiastic form (1-3 & 10-12)
grammatical parallelism
This involves the repetition of the parts of speech from one line to the next, although not necessarily in the same order (e.g. Ps.2:5; He rebukes them in his anger {verb-direct object-prepositional phrase} and in his wrath he terrifies them {prepositional phrase-verb-direct object}. This serves to tie one line with another.
http://www.xenos.org/classes/psalms/psweek1.htm


a. Staircase parallelism This feature of the parallelistic couplet, otherwise known as 'climactic' or 'repetitive' parallelism, or the 'expanded colon', has long been recognized./23/ Wilfred Watson notes some forty examples,/24/ including Jer. 31.21:
larcy tlwtb ybwv Return, O virgin Israel,hla °yr[ la ybv Return to these your cities.
From a formal perspective, the description 'staircase' is apt, but from a more semantic perspective it is easily seen that such a form is an instance of the parallelism of greater precision. In the example quoted, the Þrst line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return; the B-line speciÞes the full signiÞcance of 'return' in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more speciÞc than the A-line but also that the A is more speciÞc than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision; they are a subset of the examples of our feature.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~biblst/Department/Staff/BibsResearch/DJACcurrres/Postmodern1/Parallelism.html

Class Notes, Monday Sept. 12

Underline passages in Fry and Calasso

Google: Talmud
Canonical- is approved, approved set of texts/canon
- Canons evolve

Group 4: Mountain

iconoclastic- means literally: breaking of images

psyche- greek: Soul Metempsychosis- the transfer of souls
theology: birth of the gods

Disgusting Creatures: Tricksters- Dr. Sexson book salon - Nov. 11 or 12

Calasso: referencing:
Homer
Heseod- theogony
Homeric Hymns
Ovid- Metamorphosis
Greek Playwrights- Sophocles, Euripides, _____
Vergil

Greatest that influenced:
BCE (before common era)
Greek: Trojan War
Jewish: Exodus
1) creation
2) revolution (exodus)
3) law (torah)
4) wisdom
5) prophecy
6) gospel
7) apocolypse

Talmud

check out this site, it has entire Talmud and a whole lot more on the subject!

Genesis Passage

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Notes from Wednesday, September 7

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/2/Judaism/jepd.html
Google: Documentary Hypothesis

Documentary HypothesisLiterary analysis shows that the Pentateuch was not written by one person. Multiple strands of tradition were woven together to produce the Torah.
The view that is persuasive to most of the critical scholars of the Pentateuch is called the Documentary Hypothesis, or the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis, after the names of the 19th-century scholars who put it in its classic form.
Briefly stated, the Documentary Hypothesis sees the Torah as having been composed by a series of editors out of four major strands of literary traditions. These traditions are known as J, E, D, and P. We can diagram their relationships as follows.
(directly from website)



Notes:


Metaphor
Repetative Parallelism

1. Descriptive
2. Conceptual
3. Ideological Rhetoric
4. Romantic/metaphorical, myth, kerygmatic, speculative, imagination

Poesis: the maker - Greek


Fry-Vico:

Gods- hieroglyphic
Heroes- aristrocratic
"Men"- economics
Chaos- gibberish

Look at: Passage on pg. 113 Fry

Northrop Fry

"His theory of a historical development of literary modes as a series of displacements of the hero as god originates in his exposition of the seven stages of Albion in The Four Zoas. Frye modulates that sequence into Giambattista Vico's four stages--stories of gods, aristocratic heroes, and the people, followed by a ricorso through chaos back to the beginning--to arrive at the five stages of the development of modes in Western literature in the first essay of Anatomy of Criticism: myth, romance, high mimetic, low mimetic, irony."

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/northrop_frye.html

http://www.northropfrye.com/aboutfrye.htm

Check Out These Cites

VICO

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/new_science.html

"But as the popular states became corrupt, so also did the philosophies. They descended to skepticism. Learned fools fell to calumniating the truth. Thence arose a false eloquence, ready to uphold either of the opposed sides of a case indifferently. "

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/

http://www.cforc.com/kjv/Isaiah/63.html

Book of Isaiah
Chaper 63

63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
63:2
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
63:3
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
63:4
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
63:5
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
63:6
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

Notes from the Past

September 2nd

Perfunctory- what is necessary/ required
Thes= God dice= justice/ Theodicy- the actions of God that don't make sense to mankind.

Hurrican Relief: msn.com- hurricane relief- any search engine online
Red Cross- give blood/ water

Theocentric/ Anthropomorphic

The Grapes of Wrath- The Book of Revelation
Google: Iseah 63

Read chapter of: Cadmus and Harmony
Words of Power
Hidden Book in the Bible
Genesis

GROUP 4

Previous Notes

From Monday August 29

1. Repitition is Good
2. Originary- power of being first "in illo tempore" - being first
3. Hypoborean- comes from the northern climate
4. Mythos, story - myth
5. No using word: "Old Testament" - insults Jewish bible
6. BEWARE of getting what you want, Good comes with BAD and vice versa

For Wed. Aug 31: Northrop Fry: Chpt 1
Centripal- on the inside- inner text/material
Centrifugal- things outside of text into play- outer sources that influence text- conversation between books.
Google: Grapes of Wrath

Squish, ewwww!!! Can you wash your shoe sir?

Here is an interesting site to check out for those Grapes of Wrath fans as related to the bible and our class discussion, Here is an excerpt:

Rose of Sharon
The Hibiscus Syriacus, more commonly named the Rose of Sharon, is a medium-sized ornamental shrub. However, it is the flower that eloquently blooms on this shrub that retains the most significance. The flowers are large and showy, and originally found in Syria.
As for the character Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath, her name is decidedly relevant to play as it is embedded in Biblical metaphor. Mentioned in the bible, the flower encapsulates thehumble quality of the young women in the romantic book of Song of Songs. In this ancient biblical text, the young woman refers to herself as a Rose of Sharon or a Lily of the Valley,both flowers commonly found in Israel at the time. She is in fact calling herself 'ordinary' or 'common', not unlike Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath. Ironically her circumstances are by nomeans ordinary by the end of the play.

look @:

http://www.usq.edu.au/performancecentre/education/thegrapesofwrath/biblical.htm

Hello Class

Just wishing everybody a great Labor Day weekend (and Friday night). Well... here goes...
see ya on Wednesday!