Comparing Film and Text(s)
When learning to read and understand the Biblical text, it is helpful to look into the writer’s motive. This simple study guide provides few questions but no answers.
Read Genesis 6-9, and try to see at least two different accounts of the flood narative intervowen into the text. If you are up to it, you might even try to disentangle them.
Questions:
- What is the film maker trying to say/teach us?
- What is/are the Biblical Story/ies trying to say/teach us?
- What is the right story of the flood and why?
- What makes a story RIGHT?