For this paper you will examine forms of biblical interpretation in contemporary culture. I will provide you with various versions of the Parting of Sea in Exodus 13:17-14:31 in films from popular movies such as the Ten Commandments or Prince of Egypt. I will email these to you.
Ask yourself what the writers of the episode are doing with the text. What elements are they keeping to strictly? What portions of the text are they omitting or changing significantly? When adapting the biblical story to film (or television in the case of the TNT movie), why did they choose to keep certain elements of the text and change others? How is the story changed because they chose to represent this part this way as opposed to that way? What is your assessment of the clip not only as a work of art itself but as a kind of biblical interpretation? Support your opinions with quotations from the biblical text and evidence from the episode. Also, do not try and answer all of these questions. They are just prompts to help you think about comparison. You will need an explicit thesis statement. In other words, do not say, “they have many similarities and differences.” This is too general and is a given. Make an argument.
Overall, the point of this assignment is not to gauge how closely they follow the text. I want to see the interpretation. You can’t just say this movie sucks or is a horrible interpretation of the Bible. You have to explain what you think the director is doing. In other words, why this rather than that? A lot of this will be an act of imagination and inference on your part.
In order to help you interpret the biblical text, please examine at least one commentary on Exodus and Collins. You must reference them in your paper!
The following will be on reserve at Payson:
Childs, Brevard. The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary-EBook
Durham, John I. Exodus.
Fretheim, Terence. Exodus.
Meyers, Carol. Exodus.
Propp, William. Exodus 1-18: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Sarna, Nahum. Exodus = [Shemot]: the traditional Hebrew text with the new JPS translation.
Johnstone, Exodus 1-19, Smyth & Helwys commentary
Smith, Mark S. Exodus.-Ebook
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