Comments on: Follow-up: Writing the Bible http://anumma.com/2010/03/31/follow-up-writing-the-bible/ Conversation on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Higher Education Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Flavia http://anumma.com/2010/03/31/follow-up-writing-the-bible/#comment-1132 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:26:07 +0000 http://anumma.com/?p=1612#comment-1132 This is so funny — just tonight I did a version of the same thing (or the reverse of the same thing) with my literature M.A. students: the class is on Milton, and we were looking at Book VII of Paradise Lost, in which Milton simultaneously hews incredibly closely to the KJV creation account (replicating whole passages word-for-word), while at the same time adding TONS of text that amounts, basically, to an amplification of the original.

We wound up talking about why someone would do those two things together–and what the significance of what he adds is. Maybe the *real* answer is that he took a class with an assignment like yours!

]]> By: Christopher Heard http://anumma.com/2010/03/31/follow-up-writing-the-bible/#comment-1129 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:22:19 +0000 http://anumma.com/?p=1612#comment-1129 This is a great assignment, Brooke. I use some similar ones, such as:

Rewrite Amos 1:3–2:8 as if Amos were a Mexican prophet who had come north to preach at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove (Orange County), California.

Write a speech for Jahzeiah son of Tikvah (Ezra 10:15) to give in opposition to the proposal(s) made earlier in Ezra 10.

]]> By: Bryan Bibb http://anumma.com/2010/03/31/follow-up-writing-the-bible/#comment-1128 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:48:29 +0000 http://anumma.com/?p=1612#comment-1128 This is inspired, man. I am going to shamelessly steal this.

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