More notes and random thoughts

Biblical literalism (check it out- it's way interesting):
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1332
My favorite quote out of the article is: "Literalism pays a high price for the hope of having firm and unbreakable handles attached to reality. The result is to move in the opposite direction from religious symbolism, emptying symbols of their amplitude of meaning and power, reducing the cosmic dance to a calibrated discussion." So true!!

Composed vs. written- a composition implies a work of art (think music!), while writing is just words that happen to be there

misprision- hearing something wrong... (Mairzy dotes anyone?)

prolix- abundant

synonymous parallellism and antethetical parallellism (synonymous ex: Genesis 28:3 "... and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee...")