"Surely there is a vein for silver"

"Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it." - Job 28 (pg 656)

Class Notes 9/21

Frye
     - polysemics:  different ways to read, different level to approach a text
            ex: descriptive --> rhetorical --> poetic/metaphorical -->chromatic
               (simple)                          (language uses)                            (The Bible)

     - loss/regaining of identity and the respondable narrative shape(upside down U) = the center of The Bible
     - Displacement - placing fiction as reality, basing reality upon mythological structures
               - "All literature is displaced myth." - there is always a fairy tale hiding behind each story

Leviticus = P writer, as a rule book
                -  vs J writer who regards the Bible as a book of stories, the moral is the story; the experience rather than the applicable moral
     - these two conflict each other, Friedman's Hidden Book in the Bible supplies only the J material, also see Herold Bloom The Book of J 

Lilith
     - Hewbrew mythological figure, Adam's first wife - note: NOT in the Bible

Etiology - explanation of how things came to be and began the way they are
     ex: why women give birth in pain, why snakes crawl on their bellies, why men must work by the sweat of their brow etc
     - creation myths
     - Bible = collection of etiologies

Gnosticism - religious knowledge