Week #4 Comments/ Creation Myth
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The ten people blogs who I’ve commented on were:
Sonya Gray
Alexis Brown
Jocelyn Bunton
Andera Lee
Frederick Hudnall
Samantha Witherspoon
Renita Clark
Tristan Dixon
Shemika Sample
Brittany Scott.
It was a pleasure to read all you guys blogs. It’s good to know the several different ways you plan on improving our world. Good luck to you all!
Readings:
What do all of the creation myths that you read have in common? Give specific examples. Why do humans write creation myths? Not including Genesis, which creation myth did you find the most interesting and why? Summarize Halpern’s “Tiglath-Pileser Principle.” What does that have to do with biblical studies? What are some similarities between the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh? Name three etiologies from Genesis. Write your own etiology about why students have to take this course.
I think humans write creation myths to entice others to become more invalid with the Bible and its beliefs. So as other generations grow up they become influenced by the Bible and its beliefs. For if there were no myths there would be nothing for us to look back at and compare what we have today to what they had back then. A myth is basically a history of unclear facts that we try and figure the truth out about. A myth is just what it looks like “my thesis” like history is “his story”. Therefore, a myth is a bounce of words put together that you have to figure out what the actual meaning is. Stories told through the eyes of significant scholars that have passed down stories for generations to here. If it not for myths people would not have anything to pursue or look forward to. With a myth you never lose that feeling of hope of a better way. That is when some myths may not be true at all that I also how people can get hurt, believing in the wrong things can lead to people losing there lives. With that being said, just as people will lose there lives, there will always be myths and lots of stories to tell and lots of people who will believe them.
Students are required to take this course to help you better your knowledge of the biblical studies. However, I feel rather slightly funny about studying the Bible while in school. Although not a bad thing, it’s just taken a time to getting used to. Maybe because I never attended a Catholic school although I have been to Bible school, this differs in that I’m actually in school studying my regular courses while at the same time tying in a lesson on Biblical material. What is the actual meaning are because the course or rather why is the course required? Who created the course and who made it a required course at Xavier? Is this course something to stimulate our minds or is it something more to it than that. Either way I think it shouldn’t be a required course to take.
In Auerbach’s “Odysseus’s Scar”, it tells a story of an Israelite king, and a Judge, Ehud who is able to successfully kill this king. Ehud enters the king’s chambers with a sword or weapon on him. When the guards search him he is able to elude them because they expect everyone to carry their weapons on the left side since the majority of people are right handed. Ehud hides his weapon on his right side because he is left handed due to a mangled right hand. In Friedman’s “Deception for Deception” he discusses how Jacob deceives his blind father into thinking that he is his brother in order to inherit his birth-right. This story was very vivid to me because Dr. Homan showed us a picture of Ehud and the acting of the stabbing in class. These stories are interrelated because both of the main characters use deception to gain what they want. Two of these devices or approaches are historical criticism and literary criticism. Historical criticism id defined as, critics approach a work of literature by evaluating it for evidence that would lead to conclusions about the economic and political events going on during the time that the work was produced. With literary criticism it basically involves the overall study, evaluation and interpretation of a particular literary work.
All creation myths have just that in common that they are all myths and it is up to us to investigate how things are supposed to be taken. Every myth has to meat a certain criteria to be considered a true myth that people can really take serious. They all are no matter what still a myth and until someone brings the situation to everyone’s else attention that it is something that needs to be addressed then people can beg to differ on the topic and really that is how a myth gets it’s start when people change the story around and others say that it may or may not exists. Now it is my thesis that you’re trying to figure out whether is true or not. That is what makes myths have so much in common the answers may vary but the questions remain the same whether it is true or not will always be the same question that we always must ask ourselves before we decide to just believe everything that we here or see find out for yourself instead of going off of someone else’s myth make your own thesis for people to wonder about.