First time reading Genesis...
Aug. 30th, 2009 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hani_backupwhich is an assignment for my writing course, Our Animal Selves. It's the first five chapters of Genesis. King James Version.
Our assignment is:
Respond to the following questions: How does the Bible portray the relation between humans, animals, and the natural world? What have Adam and Eve gained and what have they lost? Pay particular attention to the Bible's treatment of language, clothing and companionship. Make sure to support your claims with specific evidence from the text (quotations, examples, and interpretations).
Well, seems simple enough. I know I have to get over this hesitation/block to get anything down on screen/paper beacuse it'll never be good enough compared to what I envision in my mind, you know? Also, just the instinctive recoil from anything religious... I've never been in a class where I was suppose to read the "Bible," religoius or literary so this is a first for me. I hope I can put aside that bias...
I mean, God gave man "dominion" over the creatures on the earthly firmament and waters and air. (Or was it sky?) And Adam and Eve got kicked outta the Garden.
I also have 50-ish pages to read for computer science and a reading test on that tomorrow. Luckily I've finished my AI reading already though that was a bit technical.
Our assignment is:
Respond to the following questions: How does the Bible portray the relation between humans, animals, and the natural world? What have Adam and Eve gained and what have they lost? Pay particular attention to the Bible's treatment of language, clothing and companionship. Make sure to support your claims with specific evidence from the text (quotations, examples, and interpretations).
Well, seems simple enough. I know I have to get over this hesitation/block to get anything down on screen/paper beacuse it'll never be good enough compared to what I envision in my mind, you know? Also, just the instinctive recoil from anything religious... I've never been in a class where I was suppose to read the "Bible," religoius or literary so this is a first for me. I hope I can put aside that bias...
I mean, God gave man "dominion" over the creatures on the earthly firmament and waters and air. (Or was it sky?) And Adam and Eve got kicked outta the Garden.
I also have 50-ish pages to read for computer science and a reading test on that tomorrow. Luckily I've finished my AI reading already though that was a bit technical.
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Date: 2009-08-31 05:15 am (UTC)Wow. Seems...uhm...likely-to-make-Izzy-fall-asleep stuff...