{"id":29,"date":"2012-04-13T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2012-05-26T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T03:47:00","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First Time Readers<\/strong><br \/>\nI have laid out ten principles to keep in mind when reading a Biblical text, especially the narratives that stretch from Genesis through Kings. They do not all apply to every text, but can provide the first set of questions to ask to understand the literary structure of what you are seeing. <a title=\"First Time Readers\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/first-time-readers\/\">(learn more \u00bb<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lighter Side<br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"Art\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/art\/\">(learn more \u00bb)<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio Clips<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough it is not clear how much of the Hebrew Bible has oral roots, much of the text is written in a style that takes close note of sound\u2014repetition, plays on words, allusions, and the like. Even outside of poetry\u2014in prose narratives and in many legal and ritual texts as well\u2014the rhythm of the words is frequently an important component of meaning. The Bible is thus great art as well as a foundational text, but this is not always brought out by reading in translation, or even by conventional reading of the Hebrew. (<a title=\"Audio Clips\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/audio-clips\/\">learn more \u00bb<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Clips<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are two film excerpts which, over the years, I\u2019ve come to regard as wonderful examples of English diction and classic readings of the Bible. (<a title=\"Film Clips\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/links\/\">learn more \u00bb<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Studying\/Teaching Bible<\/strong><br \/>\n(<a title=\"Studying and Teaching the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/links\/\">learn more \u00bb<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Time Readers I have laid out ten principles to keep in mind when reading a Biblical text, especially the narratives that stretch from Genesis through Kings. They do not all apply to every text, but can provide the first &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/resources\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resources<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/efox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}