Genealogy

Thesis: My thesis started as: Sarah’s laughter is the only reasonable response to Yahweh. After wrestling with the scripture and current events my new thesis is: Sarah’s laughter thrust her out of the tent and into the center of God’s promise for descendants. Straight white males in power need to consider this birth narrative, listen to the laughter of others, and move out of the center of the story. Begin at Home: As a clown I deal in the business of laughter. I have worked professionally…

A significant aspect of Jesus’ portraits has to do with the titles used to describe him and point to his humanness or divinity. The diction used in Mark is less suggestive of Jesus’ divine nature than in John. The most common title for Jesus in Mark’s gospel is “Teacher” or “Master,” plain human terms that emphasize the idea of serving others. Jesus is portrayed as the servant of God, but he is nonetheless the leader of the people on earth by virtue of his status as a prophet. Jesus being…

Can you imagine a world, where the Bible is used as a tool in 245 years of American slavery? Although, physical slavery ended in 1865, mental slavery still continues in America today. During the times of slavery, the slave owners would recite a variety of passages from the Old Testament to justify the immoral act of slavery. Uneducated misinterpretations of the bible have implanted true horror stories in the psyches of many African-Americans. Did the bible justify American slavery? No,…

An Epidemic Unsolved It is often argued that one is a product of their environment. In other words, as theorized by Milanovic, it is geography, not genealogy, that is the primary indicator of socioeconomic status. Globally, certain patterns can be recognized of where there is a higher gap in income inequality. Subsequently, the same can be derived within the United States, which is often overlooked as an income unequal country, though income inequality between the rich and the poor is…

A Tragic Version of History That Perpetuates the Myth of “Bad Indians” Native Americans have traditionally been depicted as primitive people who were educated and saved by the missionaries. This is in contrast with the true history of the natives’ oppression and exploitation under the mission system. The real story, of murder, rape, and loss of culture, is rarely ever told. Deborah Miranda, the author of Bad Indians, brings to light the intentional and systematic erasure of her culture and the…

when he accompanies his lover Gudrun to her home near a bridge he presses her so hard. “Under the bridge . . . he lifted her upon his breast . . . and crushed her, breathless and dazed and destroyed. And how much more powerful and terrible was his embrace” (Lawrence 330). The basic drive of human beings as the Will to Power is manifested through this coal mine owner. Gudrun also tries to dominate Gerald in her own way through her superiority as an artist. She sacrifices her lover because she…

Ancient Greeks believed in many gods, who lived at the top of Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. They believed that their gods, who were immortal, had the power to control everything, and that means their lives too. In general, the relations between people and gods were friendly most of the times, but the gods delivered some punishment to people who showed offensive behavior. All the Greek myths defined these gods’ lives and actions, and most of the stories are about how they interacted…

Final Reflection This course has been interesting in offering new perspectives on the Bible, especially in the ways in which people’s interpretations of the Bible today are related to the ways and reasons why certain books of the Bible were written. It has also been interesting seeing how Western society and history is very much dependent upon the Bible, and entire eras of history are separated by the ways people began to think and interpret the Bible. Another aspect of this class that was…

entirety of the nation, hence the terms: “In God We Trust”. Yet, America feels it is a national imperative to expand and disrupt the longevity of the Native population and continue to promote the nationalist ideology. In a narrative reflection of his genealogy called “In a Rainy Mountain”, N. Scott Momaday discusses his grandmother’s lifestyle while living in Western Montana, the Kiowa tribe and how they were provoked and culturally humiliated by circumventing U.S. armies that apprehended their…

10:35-45). In contrast, Matthew’s gospel was written for Christians who were also Jewish and knew much of the Hebrew Scriptures. Evidence for this can be found starting right at the beginning of Matthew 1:1-17 were Matthew goes on about Jesus’s genealogy marking him as a descendant of David. Matthew goes further to mention Jewish law at many points in his gospel, further evidencing that his audience must have been familiar with Hebrew Scriptures from the start (Matthew 5:17-20). The audience for…