ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Erich Auerbach, Binding Of Isaac, Dharma
Document Summary
Hebrew bible (lecture 4) the book of job. Comparison of literacy technique between homer"s odyssey, and genesis: different realities to express the purpose of the text, west; read narrative of classical ideas, difficult to view the holy text as work. Implication that it"s the readers work to get the story, to fill in the holes: odyssey; realism. Genesis lied behind modern ideas of realism too, in characterization, that character is multi layered: the bible, genesis, was a new form of reading. Chapter 22 of genesis: after these things . Abraham is fully prepared to kill isaac; it was only a test but it was to show his willingness to god. The main message of the text: one should be willing to follow god"s commands, even to the excess of killing ones child: to some readers, it is an unthinkable. Evidence from the text that the story isn"t that indepth, that the story isn"t to intense.
