{"id":4960,"date":"2009-11-04T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:00:19","slug":"religious-knowledge-lecture-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/11\/04\/religious-knowledge-lecture-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Knowledge, Lecture 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>\"david-head-goliath\"<\/p>\n

Lecture 3.\u00a0 October 14, 1947<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a historical background to the Bible, but what is important is the imaginative ordering of the events.<\/p>\n

Assyria<\/span> destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 715 B.C.\u00a0 David and Solomon illustrate a brief interval of prosperity.\u00a0 The Kingdom of Judea struggled on longer because Assyria (Nineveh) was destroyed.\u00a0 The Chaldeans come into prominence with the Babylonian captivity.\u00a0 The Jews in Babylon kept their own religion, literature, pedigree.\u00a0 The fall of Jerusalem consolidated them spiritually and nationally.<\/p>\n

Then came the Medes and Persians<\/span>, especially the latter, which took over.\u00a0 The Persian Empire was organized under Cyrus, who became the pattern of the Great King.\u00a0 He had a different policy and let the Jews keep their religious traditions and allowed them to return.\u00a0 Nehemiah describes the rebuilding of Jerusalem.\u00a0 Cyrus cleaned up on Croesus and got all of Asia Minor.\u00a0 Darius I was the great organizer and Xerxes carried on the conquest of Greece.\u00a0 The Persian Empire was destroyed by Alexander in the 4th century B.C.\u00a0 The Greeks enter oriental history in migratory droves.\u00a0 The Philistines were Aryan and closely related to the Greeks.\u00a0 For example, Goliath is described as \u201cgigantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of Alexander\u2019s empire, Palestine was ruled by Selecus and Egypt by Ptolemy.\u00a0 These dynasties became absorbed into the country; Selcia became Syria.\u00a0 The tolerant policy was succeeded by attempts to force the Jews to abandon their religion.<\/p>\n

At the time of the Maccabean rebellion, the third brother, Julius, was the field commander, and his success was consolidated by Simon.\u00a0 This independence gave them a small period of prosperity because the Romans had not penetrated that far.\u00a0 The rebellion lived on; people looked for a Messiah to deliver them.\u00a0 This was not very long before Jesus\u2019 time.\u00a0 The Maccabean period saw the consolidation of Jewish literature, and the patriotic party of the Pharisees was formed.<\/p>\n

The Romans expanded under Pompey.\u00a0 Octavius became the first emperor and Jesus was born during his reign.\u00a0 The Romans became more intolerant; they couldn\u2019t stand the Jews and, therefore, the Christians.\u00a0 In 71 A.D. Titus wiped out Jerusalem and Hadrian completed the process that made the Jews a wandering people.\u00a0 They embarked on a new Babylonian captivity in which Babylon is the whole world.<\/p>\n

We must see that the history of the Bible is a mental life, like a child\u2019s memory.\u00a0 Other events become superimposed upon another.\u00a0 For example, for the Hebrews, the Egyptian and the Babylonia captivity become one.\u00a0 Jerusalem is a squalid little town; its magnificence is in the mind.<\/p>\n

History is not important, but the imaginative pattern is.\u00a0 The Jews are an oppressed people; therefore their imaginative pattern is greater.\u00a0 The Celtic imagination, for example, creates gigantic heroes, magic, enchantment, a super-nation idea to compensate for being oppressed.\u00a0 This leads to imaginative literature.\u00a0 In the USA, you get a historical sense of fact.\u00a0 What persists are not tall tales, like Paul Bunyan stories, but stories about Washington and Lincoln.\u00a0 America is a successful nation and therefore needs no compensating imaginative history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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