A Beautiful Mind

Scholars,
You were all brilliant last night. You came up with ideas I didn't so not a lot of this is original.
After cogitating on what was said, here are my conclusions.
Protaganist: John Nash
Antagonist: Nash's delusions
Inciting Incident: meeting and talking to his first known delusion, his roommate Charles
Climax: deciding to no longer talk to his delusions (his wife's willingness to help him even
when he refused medical treatment and indicating that he should look for the answer
in his heart and not in his mind helped him to reach this climax)
Denouement: includes interacting effectively with students beginning with the first guy who
approached him in the library
Thesis: Logic is in your heart, not in your mind (or only in love can any logical reason be
found or you can't find the answer in your mind)

I don't think it was the author's intent, but I think an interesting parallel can be drawn between John Nash and Nebuchadnezzar. Both were arrogant and proud. Both went crazy or lost touch with reality. Once each became humble, his sanity returned. Nash first humbled himself when he was willing to return to the Princeton campus and ask his former archrival to be allowed to hang around. Admittedly his sanity didn't completely return, but he was able to live in reality and not let his delusions control him. (He did also take newer medications.) His pride and hunger to gain recognition are an important part of the story even though they aren't part of the analysis above. There was an obvious and remarkable transformation from Nash's initial pride to his final humility.

Revelation Questions #6 (week of Sept. 26-30)

Questions #6
1. What is Isaiah 40:1-11 about?


2. What is 1 Peter 1:1-25 about?


3. What does Pastor Swartz say the Bible without the OT except for Psalms & Proverbs is like?


4. What does Oswego Church send to those who rule over them?


5. How was OT used in the OT?


6. How was OT used in NT?


7. Which book of the NT is more dependent on OT than any other?


8. What is the rich root of the olive tree?


9. What is the olive tree? (Rom. 11:17)


10. List 5 places in scripture where a vision of God is given.




11. What does NT tell us about Christ?

12. What does OT tell us about Christ?

13. What Psalm was sung after the message. Why?


14. What personal application did you make from this message?


15. Anything else that you would you to discuss from this message?

Ancient Literature Week 6 (Sept. 26-30)

Questions from Mythology on The Iliad
Part 4, Chapter 1 in Mythology
1. What is the first sentence in the Iliad? (you can find this on-line at the website I gave you earlier www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html ) *Based on this one line what do you think the Iliad is about?
2. What is the last line in the Iliad?
3. According to myth, what was the origin of the Trojan War?
4. What bribe did each goddess offer Paris?
5. Why were the young princes of Greece willing to fight Troy to win back Helen for Menelaus? (page 259)
6. Why did Odysseus not want to fight to regain Helen? (page 260)
7. How did he try to get out of it?
8. How was he found out?
9. What else do you already know about Achilles?
10. Why did Achilles’ mother not want him to fight at Troy?
11. How did she try to hide him and how was he found?
12. Identify the following immortals and mortals and their significance to the Iliad.
Agamemnon:
Artemis
Iphigenia (include what lie her father told her mother):
Priam:
Hecuba:
Hector:
13. Who were the two greatest fighters at Troy—one for Troy & one for Greece? 14.*What action by the Greeks angered Apollo? (p. 263)
15. What action did Apollo take against the Greeks?
16. What was the quarrel between Achilles & Agamemnon?
17. Why did Thetis, the mother of Achilles, want Zeus to aid Troy in the war?
18. On page 264 we are told that the gods took sides in this war. Aphrodite, Athena, Hera, Apollo, Ares, Poseidon, and Artemis are discussed. Who did each side with and why?
19. On page 273 we are told that the gods actually joined in the fighting by fighting each other. Who fought whom?
20. What two men were selected to fight each other and determine the outcome of the entire war? Why?
21. What was the outcome?
22. Why did Hera who opposed Troy not want Troy to surrender Helen?
23. Was Hector’s prayer on page 268 answered? (Answer is on page 289)
24. What did Agamemnon want to do after Zeus entered the battle on the side of Troy?
25. What did Nestor convince Agamemnon to do?
26. Why did Achilles finally enter the battle?
27. Who Killed Hector?
28. Did this end the war?
29. What did the killer do with Hector’s dead body?


Questions on The Fall of Troy (from Mythology)
Part 4, Chapter 2 from Mythology
1. Describe the death of Achilles.
2. How was it decided who would get the arms of Achilles?
3. How did Ajax die?
4. Why was Ajax buried and not burned on the a funeral pyre and buried in an urn?
5. What did the Trojan prophet Helenus say was necessary for Troy to fall?
6. Who had them?
7. When Philoctetes finally went into battle who was the first man he wounded with Hercules’ bow and arrow?
8. Did the death of Paris result in the defeat of Troy?
9. Then the Greeks “learned” that unless they removed a statue of Athena called the Palladium from Troy, Troy would never fall. After removing the Palladium, what was the Greeks next plan to defeat Troy?
10. How did Odysseus trick the Trojans into taking the horse into their city?
11. Who killed Priam?
12. Which two members of the Trojan royal family were sacrificed by the Greeks
after the fall of Troy? How was each sacrificed?
13. What happened to the women and children of Troy?
14. How did Helen escape from Troy?

Ancient Literature Week 5

Remember you just have to finish last week's assignment--Weeks 4 & 5 Ancient Literature

Week 5 Revelation Questions

Questions #5—Got Ears?

1. What is Matt. 13:1-23 about?


2. What is Isaiah 6:1-13 about?


3. List 5 ways we know that Rev. is a symbolic book.






4. What do we need to have to understand the symbolism of scripture?



5. How do we know what Jesus’ parables mean?



6. How can we know what Revelation means?



7. What Psalm did he end with? Why?


8. What personal application did you make from this message?


9. Anything else that you would like to discuss from this message?

Revelation week 4 questions

Questions #4
1. What is Rev. 13:1-18 about?


2. What is Daniel 3:1-30 about?


3. Does the title of the book indicate that things are hidden in it?


4.When does Swartz think book was written and list at least 2 evidences he gives for this?



5.What is the other possible time that Swartz says Rev. may have been written?


6. In Biblical language what do beasts represent?


7.What is the imperial presumption?


8.What other examples do you know from scripture of this “imperial presumption”



9.What other examples from history do you know of this “imperial presumption?”


10.What does it mean to overcome?


11. What Psalm did Swartz end with? Why?


12.Is there anything else you want to discuss?


13.What application did you make from this message?

Week 4 & 5 Ancient Literature Assignment

NOTE: If you have trouble with this, you can wait until after class on Wednesday to start this.
We will discuss no further than through story 2 on Sept. 21 and then finish this assignment on Sept. 28. Theogony isn't easy, but don't get discouraged. We'll conquer it together!!! Some questions are easier than others--you might want to initially skip the hard ones and then go back to them after our Sept. 14 class.
Part 2--Theogony
1. I want you to read the entire Theogony and write down which lines go with each division listed in last week’s #8. To get you started lines 1-115 are the “prologue” and lines 881-885 are “Zeus established as King”. Don’t spend a lot of time or get bogged down in the genealogies. We are going to concentrate on the stories.
2. Who are the Muses?


3. In lines 29-35 what do the Muses ask Hesiod to sing about?


4. In lines 36-52 what does Hesiod say the Muses sing of?


5. Leithart says that originally there were 4 “gods”. He finds this in the first sentence of lines 116-138. Can you name them? Do you agree that this says that they were all there at the beginning. (Compare the Trinity—were they all present from eternity? Did the son proceed from the Father?)


QUESTIONS from STORY 1 (note: starred questions come from in between sections, not from the stories.)
6. Why did Earth want Heaven punished?


7. How did Cronos hurt his father? What weapon did he use?


8. Discuss the origin of Aphrodite.


QUESTIONS from STORY 2
9. Why did Zeus overthrow Cronos?


10. What is the stone the Cronos vomited up in about line 496? (see lines 453-491)


11. Why did Zeus set the Titans free?


*12. Who were the 4 sons of Iapetus and Clymene (FIRST SENTENCE OF LINES 507-
543)?

*13. Briefly tell me something about each of these sons.




QUESTIONS from STORY 3
14. What two things did Prometheus do to anger Zeus? What was the punishment for each? Tricked him into taking the lesser sacrifice & leaving the best for men (would not let mortal men have fire); gave fire to mortal man (gave a beautiful maiden to men from which the race of women came; in other literature we are told this first woman was Pandora & she was given to Epimetheus).



15. In lines 590-612 to what is woman compared?

QUESTIONS from STORY 4
16. Who are Obriareus, Cottus, and Gyes (don’t need to memorize these)? See lines 147-
163.


17. Who is fighting whom in lines 617-643?


18. Why did the Titan gods help their brother Cronos who had earlier bound them (lines
492-506)?


*19. Describe Tartarus.



QUESTIONS from STORY 5
20. Describe Zeus’ foe in this section.


*21. Was Zeus monogamous?

*22. Is the Theogony a romance, a comedy, or a tragedy?

Greek Goals (to be accomplished by end of first 14 lessons)

1. Be able to sing Greek alphabet
2. Write Greek alphabet (small & capital) and know sound of each
3. Be able to read aloud from Greek New Testament (don't need to understand it)
4. Be able to find Greek words in lexicon
5. Know how to use Greek Bible study aids (includes knowing what a Strong's number is)
6. Know some Greek vocabulary (I'll give a list)

Week 3 Lessons

Questions #3
What is Revelation 21:1-8 about?


What is Isaiah 65:17-25 about?


From Gen. 1:14 & 8:22 give 4 examples of the two-fold division of time in scripture. (There is something in middle that splits it in two.)



In the whole of scripture what splits Bible in two?

The first diagram has a double line separating creation and the new creation. It
represents the coming of Christ. {The OT seems to consider this one event.} The
2nd diagram takes this double line, spreads it out, and divides it into 2 parts—his
first coming (“in the flesh”) and his second coming (“in the clouds”). {The NT
refers to two separate events}. Can you match the phrases on the left with the
proper phrase on the right
The first coming of Christ the beginning of eternity
The second coming of Christ the beginning of the end of time
The beginning of the end of time the end of the end of time
The reason this apparent gobbledygook is important is that several phrases (e.g.
“in the fullness of time” & “the last days”) can refer to either the first coming or
the second coming. If you don’t discern which one from scripture your
interpretation may be incorrect.
6. What are two different Greek words for new? What is the difference in their
meanings?


What does Rev. 1:1 say Revelations is about?

Is the book of Revelation primarily about the future—that is, is it as many people think a prophecy of coming events?


What was the final psalm? What is it’s significance to this message?


Is there anything else in this message you would like to discuss?


What personal application did you make?



Part 1—Theogony
NOTE: Each time a new ancient author is introduced you will need to research him and write a brief (50-100 word paper—there will be no penalty if it is longer) on him. Each of these is to be checked by a parent for grammatical & spelling mistakes and then corrected by the student before it is turned in. This week you need to research & write a paper on Hesiod.
Theogony Questions
1. Leithart says that there are two parallel stories in The Theogony: (1) origin of the gods & (2) “succession myth”—i.e. the story of how the leader of each generation of gods is overthrown & replaced by his son. What does “theogony” mean?


2. Leithart also says that the focus of each story is Zeus. This makes Zeus the protaganist. (If you disagree that Zeus is the protaganist tell me why.) What is a protaganist?


3. There are three main types of story—comedy, romance, and tragedy. Can you give a definition of each? We are gong to decide next week which one the Theogony is



.
4. Go to web site www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html Explore the site. Find the Theogony by Hesiod. I would like you to print a copy of this. I cut & pasted this to Windows and then changed the font size to 8 because I didn’t want to use a lot of paper. It took 8 pages front & back (i.e. 16) to print it. This week we are going to only read lines 507-616, but next week we will read the whole thing. You don’t need to hand this in on Sunday but I want you to bring it to class. We are going to look at the introduction together.
5. Prometheus tricked Zeus 2x. What was each trick and what did Zeus do each time to punish Prometheus?


6. In lines 590-612 to what does Hesiod compare women?


7. Hebrew literature makes use of 2 structures: the chiasm and the concentric or ring structure. We will discuss the former in class using Ps. 73:3 & Ps. 73:6 and the latter using 2 Samuel 11-12. There is no advance work for this but be sure to bring your Bible.
8. Leithart makes the following divisions in Theogony:
Prologue
Earth & 1st generation of gods
First story: Cronos overthrows heaven
Descendents of Night, Pontos, and others
Second story: Zeus overthrows Cronos
Sons of Iapetos
Third story: Prometheus
Fourth story: Zeus versus Titans
Description of Tartarus
Fifth Story: Zeus versus Typhoeus
Zeus established as King
Marriages of Zeus
The five stories are clearly the most interesting part of the Theogony. They are basically the succession myth mentioned in question 1. The non indented parts are part 1 or the origin of the gods—this is the genealogy and my eyes glaze over with this just like with the genealogies in Genesis. In class we will discuss 3 ways to analyze these divisions.