week 16

A. In-class notes

genre

Genre is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.

No strings attached 

Director: Ivan Reitman

Writers: Elizabeth Meriwether, Michael Samonek

Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline

The film is about two friends who decide to make a pact to have "no strings attached" casual sex without falling in love with each other. The film was released in the United States on January 21, 2011.

The Hebrew Bible p.110

Hebrew Bible or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh, the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament. They are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some pass ages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few others).

 

god and sinners reconciled  

"We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:20-21)

 

Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

 

Abe in Pearl Harbor: From Remembrance to Reconciliation

(http://thediplomat.com/2016/12/abe-in-pearl-harbor-from-remembrance-to-reconciliation/)

 

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Date: December 7, 1941

Location: Primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, U.S.

Result: Major Japanese tactical victory; precipitated the entrance of the United States into World War II

The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

 

Bruce Almighty

 

Director: Tom Shadyac

Writers: Steve Koren (story), Mark O'Keefe (story)

Stars: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman

A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.

 

scarecrow

raven

crow

omen- foreboding

ominous- full of foreboding

 

Exodus

The Exodus is the founding, or etiological, myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant.

 

Exodus: Gods and Kings

 

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage

Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

 

Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.

 

Monotheism

Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god or in the oneness of God.

 

Job (biblical figure)

Job is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible.

Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset with horrendous disasters that take away all that he holds dear, including his offspring, his health, and his property. He struggles to understand his situation and begins a search for the answers to his difficulties.

 

Pachelbel canon

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stCKjZniMsQ)

 

Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.