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Recent gospel studies have capitalized on the advance in scholarship of narrative criticism. On the other hand, gospel studies have suffered from a general lack of application of demonology. This dissertation is an attempt to combine demonology and narrative criticism through pl…

Through the intersection of discourse analysis and plot analysis a proposed microplot for Genesis is developed from the formal structure of the narrative. The macrostructure of Genesis is determined to consist of eleven sections marked by transitional toledot headings. These hea…

French composer Claude Debussy’s compositions symbolize the definition of twentieth century music. His use of unresolved wandering dominant seventh chords, the use of ninth, elevenths, and thirteenth chords, the use of pentatonic and whole-tone scales, and extreme dynamics and o…