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