Week 11: Response to Comments
1147 words by kc48
Respond to comments on your project. What is the difference between source and textual criticism? Summarize Tobit, and what is the main lesson of this story? Why do some people consider the Maccabees to be heroic.
I would just like to thank everyone for commenting on my blog. It seems like I was begging half of the time for somebody to comment on my blog because for the longest time I had 0 comments. I hate that I waited so late to get my blog 9 out of the way and I guess that is the consequences for not doing it on time. As of today I only have 4 people that have commented on my blog so far but I am just going to try and stretch 1000 words out of this!! First off I would just like to thank SShelby for being the first person to write on my blog. You being the first gave me hope that maybe people were going to actually write about my week 9 blog. Thank you for your true criticism of my blogging. Making the pledge cards all around campus would be great, but because different dorms and buildings have different rules and regulations dealing with what people can put on the walls. So seeing the pledge cards might be difficult if you do not live on campus or if you do not live in the Living Learning Center. But if you want to get in contact with me by email (kcolema1@xula.edu) I will happily give you a card that you can sign. I think that would I should have done to make it more availible to everyone on campus by just slipping the cards under people’s dorm doors that way I would not have had to worry about all these different school rules and regulations. People can be so difficult sometimes. Just email me if you would really like to get a hold of me so I can give you a pledge card. THANKS AGAIN.
To Peter Pham, thank you for commenting on my blog. Like I wrote to SShelby I was getting nervous when I was not seeing anybody commenting on my blog so I know how it feels to beg. Thank you for your helpful advice and encouragement on my project. I do think that people really do need reminders all over the place to tell them that what they are doing or what they are about to do is bad for them. I still hope that I can get them spread out across campus and I hope that I can continue with this project. I would like the news of my project to spread everywhere because I am excited to see the results. Thank you again for commenting on my blog and for your kind words.
To Kelly Davis: Thank you for commenting on my blog as well. Thank you for giving me the courage to tye and finish my project, because like I said it is very hard trying to deal with uncooperative people. I hope that I will be able to continue with this project, especially with Mardi Gras coming up. During Mardi Gras, I believe that people drink their worst. As a matter of fact, I know that people try to get completely wasted around that time. I believe that it is my duty to tell people the truth about what they are doing to their bodies. And it is true that some people just do it just to drink and only a few are at the abuse level. But I think that some of the heaviest drinkers start off in college, this is where the abuse starts. Thanks again for commenting!!
To Jason Edwards: First off thank you for commenting on my project blog. I believe that I am probably just as behind as you are in your project. Hopefully we will make it out together on top. Thank you for your kind and truthful words in dealing with my project. It has been very difficult in trying to inish my project but with God’s will and everyone’s help and encouragement I will finish this project… You should hand over some of your alcohol abusing friends to me so that I can talk to them and give them a pledge card. Thank you for all of your helpful comments.
Source criticism is the idea that Biblical text comes from different places from and come from different time eras. It is considered to be the “higher criticism” of the two. Different books of the Bible, although they it may name one person who authored it, when in fact ut was authored by several people over a period of time. This can be seen with the 4 Gospels of the Bible. Although they are basically talking about the same thing, Jesus’ life and death, they are written in various time periods.
Textual criticism studies the text of the Bible. It is considered to be the “lower criticism.” This type of criticism deals with what the authors of the Bible said and how the author related the words to the author had to say. Historians look at the way that the sentences were stuctured to see which sentence was the original text. If the sentence was more simple than the other then it was considered to be the original text and if the sentence seemed more difficult than the other it was considered to be the original text. In the story of Tobit, we read about a man who was exiled by the king after he attempted to bury all of the Jews that he had slain. He later returned to the city of Ninevah once the king had died. He then is greeted by more misfortune when he becomes blind from bird droppings that fell in his eyes. His blindness makes him want to forget life altogether because he fill that he can no longer live without being able to see. He is met with other unfortanute things when he comes into contact with the person that owes him money. He travels with a disguised angel that tells him that if he kills a fish and takes the bladder which helps him give him back his vision. In the end of the story, Tobit finally finds comfort and happiness, when he marries a girl who like him was once hopeless but has now found happiness. The main theme of the story of Tobit is that when you are down on your luck don’t give up and become hopeless becomes something always ends up turning around.
On Wikipedia it describes Maccabees as being a Jewish man who started a liberation movement and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes. When the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem, it was Maccabees and his soldiers that rebuilt it.