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: Notes on readings:
 * Purity and priestly in JSB: Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14
 * Coogan. Ch. 10: 146-148, 150-155 (Purity and Holiness Code), 157f. (Women)

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