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Thank you We sneak Mary roland's in the bible and

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her story eyelash He reads the bible in a really

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unconventional way So she'll use the bible as kind of

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like a way to tell the future or like a

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prophetic as a prophetic document as something supernatural social like

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Flip through it at random land on a page and

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just read that passage and assume that that passages like

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specific to say to her unique situation So again she's

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also performing the kind of intense reading did she wants

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us as rears to perform She wants us to kind

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of see ourselves directly reflected in this taxed even though

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it's not necessarily about us specifically do you think maybe

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that's why this book sold so well It was wildly

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popular upon her return It does so much i mean

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it's a fascinating story but also fits right in with

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the moral values of today in terms of other women

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how to behave I think it has a winning combo

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in that first of all you're saying it's like hyper

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moral in it affirms american values and firms american's right

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to be there taking the land Yeah on the other

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hand it's also this like sexy story of a woman

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on her own like making it being scrappy and surviving

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right You get simultaneously all that action and all of

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the like goody two shoes moral stuff affirming american values

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and there's tons of biblical reference in it So they're

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these four classical ways of reading a biblical text One

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isn't the literal level right It actually happened One is

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on the allegorical level which is what moral lessons can

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we take from this one is on the trap a

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logical level which is how does this relate to the

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story of jesus How does this recall that And the

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final one is the scatological level which is like how

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does this tell the story of the end of the

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world Right where it's like the world as a whole

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So her taxes operating in that tradition by having references

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to all four So this idea of her kind of

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wandering in the wilderness and coming home that's the story

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of jesus is the story of jesus and it's also

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kind of a story of the and the world yeah

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especially the scene from the beginning that's the story of

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the end of the world But then also what comes

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after How does rowlands and read the bible How does

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she want people to read the bible What are the

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four classical ways of reading the biblical text We forgot 00:02:25.969 --> [endTime] to mention she read the bible and cling on

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