REL STD 5A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Skeleton Key, Spoken Language, Maccabees
10 Oct 2015
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The hebrew bible, its most famous passage, and the talmud . Holy book of judaism; not just a book, but a collection of many different. Several authors of different geographical locations who likely didn"t know or read each other; however, some quote/allude to another author. Usage) but invented by chinese in the 1st century: ancient jews write in hebrew (right to left, spoken language has vowels, but written only has consonants. Genesis: title is from the first word/verb of the book. Scribe: holy calling to portray antiquity; work from a model copy or listen to someone speaking. No mistakes: literary styles of writing help identify the date, bible: enormously influential, christian bible: adopted the jewish bible ( old testament , can"t understand western literature without understanding the bible; too many. Jewish/hebrew bible = redundant for them; it"s just the bible. allusions. The bible is a skeleton key (opens all locks)
