JUS 372A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jakob Dont, Etiology, Israelites
4 Nov 2016
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Patriarchal age abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, and their world. Names of gods are used as human elements in ancient near east. History of traditions: separating out strands of information within the tradition. Myth and ritual school: all myths were enacted as rituals. An eponymous ancestor is an ancestor after whom a group is named. Israel is named after jacob, whose name is changed to israel after he wrestles a messenger of. Tribes of israel are named after his sons. Do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hether or (cid:374)ot they (cid:449)ere a(cid:272)tually related to o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)other. Also heroic ancestors to some degree, but not military heroic. Benjamin is a name for a southern tribe. Kinship models are used as models for all relationships and scales. A historical method that tries to trace out the different traditions that went into the hebrew bible or any other ancient source. Locations serve as a key to story origins. Relationship between ancestors are model for integration of tribes/areas.
