Amanda Thomas

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Blog #2

                                                Why Read the Bible as a piece of literature?

            Many people can form different understanding on what literature is and what should be read in a class as teaching material. The bible is one when many people try to stay away from it as it can touch some many different people in different ways. But reading the bible can open new things and ideas that can have an important role in how a literature class works. When reading the bible you can learn what is like to understand not only a different culture but also how the culture itself affects the religion. Interpreting the bible as literature can also become a challenge. When trying to do a cultural understanding one looks at major books such as Genesis and how it is told how the earth is created. Understanding this can mean lead to many other ideas such as how when people were so new to earth they could do what they did? Or Why did humans act the way they did and lead to some many different civilizations and cultures around the world today? Literature can be seen as a written work that defines language, period or a certain culture. The bible fits in this because it talks about a certain culture, the creation of earth and the belief in God and religion of Christianity, and led to Muslim and the Jewish traditions can find some roots from each other.                                                                                                                                                                            What is role of Women According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible?                                                  The role of women throughout history has been challenged and changed many different times. Eve in the bible can be seen as a person who wants to follow rules but what to test the knowledge of man as well. Being told not to eat from the tree of life being a woman she challenges this and is then forced upon by good that she will become responsible for childbirth. She takes this as a simple thing in life and puts up no fight.  Being women she feels a sense of challenge and that she must prove herself. Sarah can be seen as the same way when she is told that she will have a baby. She responses by laughing and saying I am to old, but she does not but up a fight and does give birth to a son. Then can both be seen has having a sense of life that they need to show that they are women and can be the same as man. Man always holds a higher priority. Adam can be seen to being in charge of Eve but when God confronts him about eating the fruit he blames Eve. He places the blame on a women because he cannot be seen as disobeying God. This shows that women create a bad reputation just because men will do anything to show they are not failures and women are.                                                                                                                                                                            What is the importance of the bible in a civilization or culture?                                                              The book of Genesis in the Bible can have many different symbols and how cultures can be affected by the meanings. The tree of life can show that mankind came from a single sprout or leaf of the tree. As the tree grew so did the civilizations and the trust in God everywhere. The creation of man the destroying man with flood can show that God was not happy with his creation and he wants to start over similar to how as one civilization die out another comes along and is better and learns from the previous mistakes. The importance can be that reading and interpreting the Bible can lead to understand what ones role in a culture can be. Creating something out of one’s life can come from what one interprets the bible to be and how important it is in their life.