RELS 2001 Midterm Study Guide Spring 2013 Date: 7/2 You are required to bring Blue Books for the exam. They are available at the Student Government Office (4th floor‚ University Center‚ right above the bookstore) for free. I will collect all your Blue Books and redistribute them before the exam. Also‚ you will be strictly required to leave all your cell phones and bags (along with all reading materials) in the front of the class. Any kind of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated
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create the world and provide it with what exists in it today. Tanematua further experimented with his creation leading to the establishment of all life. Babylonian Religion The Babylonian creation epic is named the ‘Enuma Elish’ where the foundation of the world is laid by a primeval godly male in the form of fresh water called Apsu and a salt water goddess called Tiamat when the waters divided into two. The union of these deities gave birth to younger gods which further
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rivers Promise Land: land promised to Abraham Chapter Three Anthropomorphic: humanlike Cosmology: accounts of creation Divine council: the assembly of the gods Elohim: Enkidu: a new creature made out of clay by mother goddess Aruru. Enuma Elish: the Babylonian creation
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helped improved the living conditions of the poor and put in place an eight-hour work day for state employees. He also favored polices that protected New York State’s many forest. He was very popular in the state and was a shoo-in for re-election (Elish Dan). After being Governor for two years he wanted to do more for the country. He had ran with William McKinley they had had an easy win over the democrats. In March 1901 Theodore was sworn in as vice president of the United States. Theodore
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these tools serve to advance the learning process. In order for one to understand the value reading comprehension possesses‚ one must first understand what it is. Reading comprehension is “the process of understanding or making meaning when reading” (Elish-Piper‚ 2010). The reader can use what he knows to get a grasp of the material he is reading. For example‚ a large vocabulary—understanding the meanings of many words—can help someone understand a wide variety of texts. The text can usually be placed
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information provided by http://faculty.gvsu.edu/webssterm/ways.htm (not written by member of this website) Ways of Interpreting Myth (LINKS) In a recent article on flood myths‚ Alan Dundes wrote: "Theories of myth interpretation may be roughly divided into two major groupings: literal and symbolic. Literalists tend to seek factual or historical bases for a given mythological narrative while advocates of one the many symbolic approaches prefer to regard the narrative as a code requiring some
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frrdtrtads roam from place to place in search for pasture and moving with the season. Semi-nomads graze their small live stock near the fields of the settlements‚ often trading for goods obtained elsewhere and having all kinds of other interactions. This characteristic is still present in the Near East today. Nomads leave little archeological trace and are illiterate‚ so not much is known about them by direct means. However‚ some description does appear in written form: recorded by the Sumerians
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Babylonian version of creation there are many gods. Marduk is the king of gods which suggests that there is a hierarchy. For each act of creation there is a god that receives credit or is responsible for being its keeper. The Babylonians version (Enuma Elish) tells a story of how these gods had disagreed and then fought. The consequent results are the creation of the world. However‚ in the Biblical version of creation God created all and in a specific order to ensure life would survive. God’s purpose
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arrived at his new homeland‚ he found himself struggling with the Old Settlers‚” (Elish [Page 28]). This shows that‚ even after the long and difficult journey walking to Oklahoma‚ the Cherokees still had a hard time surviving. It is important to realize that after the Treaty of New Echota was signed and the Old Settlers had moved away‚ the tension between the Cherokees and the Old settlers hasn’t stopped. To illustrate‚ Elish states‚ “There was genuine threat of Cherokees civil war‚” (Page 86). This is
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CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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