Vocabulary from my notes and class e-journals:

• centripetal - inside, trying to make sense of words
• centrifugal- outside, conventional meanings of words from memory used in world of language outside of the work being read
• Theodicy- the actions of gods that man does not understand
• Theocentric- Judeo-Christian view of world
• Paranomasia- word play
• Psyche- soul or heart, energy source
• canonical- sanctioned as official list
• sporagmous- rending or tearing of flesh
• synechdoche- part stands for the whole
• Patrilocal- goes to house of wife
• Virilocal- man takes father's place
• Female- biological term
• Feminine- cultural/biblical
• Decalogue- 10 Commandments/ worship vs. social laws
• teraphim- household god's
• Shaol- Greek underworld, non-existance
• Lacunea- gaps in the text
• Brotherhood tradition- brother must take brother's widow and help her concieve
• 10 Books of Hebrew Bible- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticul, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges (and Ruth), 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, and 1 & 2 Chronicles
• 5 Books of Torah are above first five
• Chaos- formlessness
• Greek sin- act of not remembering what you should have
• Pro-Metis- thinks before acts
• Mnemosyne- begins with memory
• Freudian memory- you can remember everything since birth, even in womb
• Collective memory- remember everything from beginning of time
• Truth- Leth- proof, lethia-forgetting, alethia- remembering
• archetype- story or image that is foundational and repeated
• Paratactic- speech that uses no subordination
• misprision- don't hear correctly
• Hesiod- theogony- birth of gods
• Arabesk- 2-D layered art
• iconoclastic- breaking of images
• Anthropomorphic- attributing human characteristics to non-living things or animals
• documentary hypothesis- more than one author to Bible, mainly 4, JDPER
• Bible- biblia, book, "the little schrolls"
• Talmud- discussion about the Bible
• Sodom and Gamorra- cities of the plain that are destroyed by God for being too sinful
• BCE- before the common era
• Table of contents of Hebrew story: creation, revolution, law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, adn apocalypse
• prolix- abundant
• conceptual writing- argumentative, power of words to co-ordinate, verbal elements; being, substance, time, nature, abstract
• descriptive- traditional literal meaning in which words have teh function fo transmitting the non-verbal, objective is truth, ordering of words, non-argumentative
• ideological- rhetorical persuasion, metaphors
• omina- spirit
• ideology- how a thing came to be the way it is
• Vico's de-evolution of language; Gods, Heroes, Men, Chaos
• dialectic- logic, intellectual investigation
• rhetoric- art of speaking or writing effectively
• Isaac- she laughed
• Poesis- Greek word for maker
• Hyperbireabs- white and blond, from the north
• Adamah- breathe life into him
• Jepheth- Noah's son also goes by the name "Canaan"
• Anagogical- mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text
• Israel-North KingdomJudah-South Kingdom
• Story of the Wandering Jew: a fugitive who has done wrong and can't die...he is doomed to wander forever and, according to CNN, is now located somewhere in France
• circumcision- the outward sign of the covenant between God and his people (as told to Abraham)
• Biblical patriarchs-Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph
• sacrifice- to make sacred -sac=make -fic=sacred
• didactic- teaches a lesson
• parable- doesn't confirm your view on the world, but instead turns it upside down
• Repetitive Parallelism- saying the same thing two different ways
• Perfunctory- doing only what is required
• There are more on Mick's blog that I didn't have