User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 13

Monday

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

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