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Assignment - Scientific And Psychological Mythical Theories on Jesus's Resurrection Paper
Description - New Testament - This is the collection of 27 books that make up the canon of the New Testament. You will choose either an historical/cultural event or practice, a particular healing or exorcism by Jesus, a teaching or literary technique by one of the Gospel writers.
Whatever your chosen topic and selection of reading from the New testament, you want to examine it from at least two of the following theories or approaches to myth:
For example - Jesus Crucifixion and Death: selections from one or two of the four Gospels
1. Myth and Science: Are there medical or scientific analysis and information on this method of Roman execution? How did Jesus die?
2. Myth and Religion: What Christian (and maybe specifically Catholic) rituals retell and relive these events leading up to Jesus death? What role does this story play in Christian theology?
3. Myth and Structure: How do we see the narrative structure of a dying (and rising/returning) God figure in other myths and stories? What tensions and oppositions are resolved in this story?
4. Myth and Psychology: What does this story reveal about our own feelings, fears, and conceptions of suffering and death? What symbols or archetypes in the story reveal something of our psyche and consciousness?