GOM midterm 1

Book of J

950 BCE, J

- Backbone for genesis and exodus
- Describes how the Israelite people came to be
- J might be a women

Letters to the Galatians

50 CE, Paul
- Radical ideas
- Orthopraxy (judean law) → Orthodoxy (having faith)
- Faith as a collection of people → anyone can practice. You don’t have to be Jewish

Book of Matthew

90 CE, [Anon]

- Less radical than Paul
- Jesus going around performing miracles and preaching

Gospel of Marry

200 CE, [Anon]

- Weird
- Jesus chose a women to explain his teachings
- First Christian text/divorced from Judain Tradition
- Sin is not real —> chemical imbalance is sin
- repeats “he who has ears to hear” “he who understands undewrstands) basically IYKYK

Poetics

335 BCE, Aristotle

- How to write a tragedy
- Must have recognition + reversal
- Must elicit pity and fear
- bad happening to good or good happening to bad (the tragic part)

Documentary Hypothesis

Came from inconsistent repetitions in the Hebrew Bible
J is the backbone
Multiple authors
Can form a continuous story(J) by pulling out specific sections

Genesis

Moses/documentary hypothesis, 550 BCE
Wonderful tail of how the world came to be. No Moses. Very specific traditions.

Exodus

Moses/documentary hypothesis, 550 BCE
Jews escaping the dessert. Very specific traditions.