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Genesis 34 describes the story of Dinah, her rape, and the events that follow. The story of Dinah has inspired many written publications which work to provide background to the life of Dinah and expand on her story because so little information is given on her life and the events that took place to merit her story in the bible. Interpreting the story of Dinah is a popular theme in articles and novels alike because of how little is known of the life of Dinah. Genesis 34 gives a brief snippet of information about Dinah, but instead focuses more on the actions of her brothers in response to Dinah and Shechem.

Throughout different forms of literature, clothing is symbolically used to represent the status of the main character at changing intervals of his or her life. Just as clothing that is worn today can send messages about who we are as people, the same phenomena can be said about clothing of past generations, as well as within a literary context. Which garments are worn, and in fact, how they are worn, can lead to identifications about culture, gender, wealth, socioeconomic status, and religion. Also indicative of these characteristics is the absences of certain articles of clothing. In Joseph’s story, the garment motif is used as an obvious symbol, throughout the entirety of the narrative to represent downfalls and uprises in the plot. This use of symbolism may also reveal

19 Facilitate learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences (HSC 3004) Assessment of this unit This unit introduces you to the knowledge and skills that are needed to support individuals to plan, take part in and evaluate learning and development activities. It focuses on the benefits of learning and development activities to individuals, the importance of identifying individual needs and the role of the practitioner in planning, preparing, facilitating and reviewing learning and development activities. You will need to: 1.

I met Claverle Joseph, otherwise known as CJ, back in 2013 when I was trying out for a travel basketball team called Palm Beach Flight. Our body types were about the same, lanky, about 6ft tall, and size 12 shoes. However, that was the only similarity we shared. My upbringing came from attending a private catholic school for twelve years before I moved to Florida. His was a more difficult path where he faced problems within his own family and in his neighborhood. I got to know CJ over the next three years as we played on the basketball team together side by side and sharing countless experiences in hotel rooms when we would travel to different parts of the state to play. Although our differences were stark, we bonded over basketball and we

family changed overtime. Just as the event in the Holy Bible of Joseph and his brothers. The

He punished them when they were unfaithful because their faithfulness was important to the whole history of the world. Everything depended on it, he said.” In The Book of Ezekiel Question by Question by Corrine L. Carvalho, on page 25 it states “….in fact, nowhere in the book will it state that God ‘loves’ Israel.” The character of Lila, feels she deserved all the painful experiences of her past and that she was not worthy of what God had to offer her. Lila trated herself as if she was going to receive some sort of disapproval. She felt like she was able to connect with the people of Israel in the aspect that they were as lonely as she felt. On page 125 of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila, it states “She was mainly just interested in reading that the people were a desolation and a

“What good is the law if it prevents me from serving justice” is a feeling Judah has in his situation. He is in a complicated circumstance, where his mistress wants to expose his infidelity to his wife and he is trying to find any way to stop her. Judah’s sense of justice is selfish, he knows he has committed infidelity and rather than face the consequences he feels that his situation is unjust. His view of Justice is similar to the situation when Socrates asks Euthyphro what is piety, Euthyphro answers “doing what I’m doing”. Both Euthyphro’s sense of piety and Judah’s sense of justice are both similarly conceited, they both answer to inflate their ego as they see themselves as being in the right in each of their circumstances. What makes

Nestled between the heartwarming story of Jacob meeting Esau and the deaths of Rachel and Leah lies the tragedy that is Genesis 33: Dinah and the Shechamites. With rape and sexual assault gaining more awareness around college campuses in the United States, I thought it would be interesting to scrutinize the Biblical scholars’ perspective on the rape of Dinah. It seems everyone has a strong opinion on how she was treated and how her brothers treated their hosts, but few appear to have an opinion on Dinah herself. This is a result of every source at some point essentially expressing the same sentiment: we can only assume what Dinah thought because she never uttered a word. That said, I will both summarize what each commentary says about Dinah, as well as offer some reflection on the commentary itself.

The first chapter deals with common fallacies when regarding the sin of Sodom. It helps to refute the arguments of frequency determining importance and the condoning of same-sex relations to name a couple. The focus of this chapter is to start by eliminating believed fallacies for a clearer reading experience. The second chapter sets the scene. Like any good story, the setting is a major contributor. It can be difficult to understand a historic event without understanding the time and place it is set in. Explaining previous biblical events

The Cry of Tamar was quite eye opening in the sense that it exposes the misogynistic bias within the Christian faith. Although I already understood the fact that many stories within the bible are written to exemplify and glorify men, the rape of Tamar is one story that should not have been the case. I saw this bias as the book opens with the biblical story of the crime committed towards Tamar and how it is followed by the story of Tamar retold through subversive memory. The book describes subversive memory as the following: “a process of retrieving lost voices of biblical women through historical imagination and re-creation” (p. 26).

Anachronism within The Shepherds’ Second Play, Marriage of Mary and Joseph, and Joseph’s Doubt, allows characters traditionally given secondary roles in the presences of Mary and the Christ-child to be brought to the forefront and portrayed as relatable figures. This is done to emphasize different aspects of the narratives such as the common man’s ability to be virtuous,. The presence of anachronism helps solidify that relatability.

By this time, Jacob had heard that Shechem had caused his daughter to become impure. Jacob waited until his sons were home from working in the fields to tell them of the news about Dinah and Shechem. Just as Jacob’s sons arrived Hamor was asking Jacob for marriage arrangements for Shechem. When Jacob’s sons heard was Shechem had done to Dinah they were enraged. According to the law in Israel, what Shechem had done was intolerable. Despite this, Hamor pleaded for his son to have Dinah as his wife. Hamor said that if Jacob gives him his daughters, then Hamor would give Jacob’s sons his daughters. Hamor went on to say that the land will become partially theirs. Hamor promised to give Jacob and his sons whatever they could possibly ask for if Shechem could marry Dinah. The sons of Jacob said they could not possibly allow Dinah to be wedded to Shechem because he was not circumcised. The matrimony would cause much disgrace to Jacob and his family as a result of Shechem’s uncirumcision. In order to permit the

Biblical scholars often debate on whether or not the rape of Dinah is a legitimate claim. In order for one to form their own opinion, they should read the text of the story as it is written in the Bible. Then, they should read various journals and commentaries to see what scholarly authors have to offer as evidence for their personal opinions of the story. As the biblical text presents in Genesis 34, Dinah is the daughter of Leah and Jacob. One day, Dinah set out to visit some of the women of the land. When Shechem saw her, the son of Hamor, he fell in love with her at first sight and “seized her and lay with her by force” (Genesis 24:2). In fact, he was so in love with her, he asked Hamor to get her for his wife. Jacob quickly got word of the abuse that fell upon Dinah, and when his sons came in from the fields, he relayed the information to them. Hamor went to Jacob to ask for Dinah’s hand on behalf of Shechem, and Jacob offered him a deal. If Hamor would have every man in his city circumcised, then he would allow Shechem to marry Dinah. While Hamor agreed to Jacob’s proposition, Jacob’s sons, Simon and Levi, devised a plan of their own. They were so infuriated with the abuse bestowed upon Dinah that they decided to take advantage of Hamor’s kingdom while they on their third day of healing from their circumcisions. Simon and Levi murdered every male in the city, and the other sons of Jacob followed by seizing anything and everything they could. After this news reached

This kind of biblical context is not relevant to the modern society that existed before the regime of the Gilead. As the context in ancient societies the men were considered as the head of the family. Men can have multiple wives so he can produce as many children as possible and women did not have many rights according to their laws. There are some similarities between the Gilead and the ancient society, as in in ancient times and Gilead the child death rate is very high.

In Tamburlaine, Part I, the denouement is Tamburlaine’s efforts to solve his domestic problems. He kidnapped Zenocrate and now he has to deal with the king of Arabia, the one who Zenocrate was promised to. Tamburlaine must also reconcile himself with her father, the Soldan of Egypt. In Act V, Tamburlaine attacks the city of Damascus, and in the following battle, the king of Arabia is killed. Therefore, his threat to Tamburlaine is ended. Tamburlaine conquers the city and the Soldan, who, discovering that Tamburlaine has used his daughter chastely, extends his blessing: “I yield with thanks and protestations / Of endless honor to thee for her love.” (p.61) Now Tamburlaine controls everything and the play closes with his preparations to marry Zenocrate. The irony lies in Tamburlaine’s speech near the conclusion of the play. While in Tamburlaine’s captivity, Bajazeth and his empress Zabina commit suicide. When Tamburlaine finds about their deaths, he