User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 13

Monday

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Objectives:

  • Feedback on Hayes and scholars
  • Present and compare scholarship on E-N
    • Time to work on improving E-N assignments
  • Compare HB and WP (time-permitting)

Presentations: What are each author’s reasons, evidence, and argument about impurity and intermarriage?

Wednesday

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Prospectus due -- printout (stapled if need be)

Readings -- feedback sheet

Discussion of Wikipedia and Hebrew Bible

  • Peer review?
  • Open presentation
  • Brainstorm
  • Topics and hypotheses
  • Tour of Wikipedia issues and links

Next Readings:

  • Purity and priestly in JSB: Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14
  • Coogan. Ch. 10: 146-148, 150-155 (Purity and Holiness Code), 157f. (Women)

Notes on readings:

Leviticus:

  • P source, composite elements
  • Topics include sacrifices and offerings, purity system, vows, the Holiness Code
  • Sacrificial system
    • 1. Gift, analogous to tribute. Appease, thank, petition
      • A meal for the god? Criticized in some Biblical texts, e.g., Psalms // p.147
      • Does God need sacrifices? prophets (p.321)
    • 2. Resource re-allocation, for poor and priests
      • Similar: Tithing
  • Purity and impurity system --
    • theories about dietary law
      • health
      • group differentiation
      • sense of order
      • facing death and sex
  • Types of impurity
    • corpse
    • menstruation (though infrequent, 158)
    • genital discharges
    • child birth
    • skin conditions (cloth and buildings)
  • Women in Israelite ritual and law (156ff.)
    • Patrilineal and male priesthood
    • Women peripheral to rituals
      • Hints of women's rituals (157)
      • Exemptions, e.g., 3 pilgrimage festivals
    • Women "subordinate legal status" in a patriarchal society
      • similar to property
      • paternal control
      • seduction law (Lev. 19:20-22)
      • no inheritance
      • purity: boys vs girls