1. Format:
   1. Put the complete bibliographic references at the top of the first page of your analysis
   2. Put your name(s) on one line and the text references on the second line of a two-line header that appears on the top left of each page of your analysis
   3. Put page numbers on the top right of each page of the analysis
2. Use part one of your essay to analyze the key features each text (seriatim), e.g.,
   1. What genre of literature is this?
   2. How is it structured?
   3. What form does the passage take?
   4. What is the key idea or thesis of the passage?
   5. What key terms are used, and what do they mean?
   6. What images, metaphors, or other literary devices does the author use to convey the key idea of the passage?
3. Use part two of your essay to evaluate the similarities and differences between/among the texts, e.g.,
1. What are the most significant structural or formal commonalities you find?
2. What are the most significant common ideas or illustrations used?
3. Conceptually, where do the texts disagree?
4. Use part three of your essay to evaluate this exercise, e.g.,
   1. What is the most important thing you learned by doing this analysis?
   2. What are two or three questions you would like to raise for class discussion of these texts?

Your analysis should be available to the class by the session before you will be presenting it.  You may publish it on the Web, via e-mail, or in print copies for everyone.  Include any pertinent Biblical reference(s) in the analysis so the class can prepare the passages ahead of time.

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