We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Is poetry as important as history in the Bible – what are your thoughts?
10 comments:
Michelle wrote: "thats a hard one. i wonder if a way to test this would be through a quantifiable experiment. "
Per-Ole wrote: "I would support that. Including all the other genres used."
Tina wrote: "Definetely! If we don't Transport the Context in our modern Time we lose credibility"
Abigail wrote: "I might argue the categories aren't always so clear. Or to put it another way, I could argue that all of the biblical text is poetry."
Per-Ole wrote: "Abigail Mallin True. Some of the genres are not even recognizable genres, since they are not in common use anymore. Other genres weren't introduced then. Luke clearly states that he is writing a historical account. That seems to exclude poetry in that particular example, but I'm curious to hear your argument."
Michelle,
Thanks. Hmmm. Did you have one in mind?
PO,
Thanks. Excellent insight.
Thanks Tina.
Abigail,
Thanks. True, there is sometimes a blurring of categories, but equally sometimes there is more clarity depending on genre and intentionality. 'Poetic' might be a fitting metaphor, if it stands for something like the organic whole - all of the theological, literary, artistic, and historical overtures in the text. But, how one uses the term poetry in, all of the biblical text is poetry, is still an open question. Love to know what you have in mind.
PO Wrote: "Abigail Mallin True. Some of the genres are not even recognizable genres, since they are not in common use anymore. Other genres weren't introduced then. Luke clearly states that he is writing a historical account. That seems to exclude poetry in that particular example, but I'm curious to hear your argument."
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