Structuring Bible stories for the Pajonal Campa Indian /by Everett E. Bragg, II.

Bragg, Everett E,

Structuring Bible stories for the Pajonal Campa Indian /by Everett E. Bragg, II. - 1994. - vii, 62 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Typescript. Ministry Perspective Project submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, Columbia, South Carolina, April 1994. 1. The Research Problem 2. Review of Relevant Research and Materials 3. Methods and Procedures 4. Findings 5. Conclusions and Recommendations List of Illustrations List of Tables



The Research Problem -- The Research Question -- Subsidiary Questions -- Definitions of Terms in the Questions -- Assumptions. Precedent Research Regarding Story Structure and Retention -- Bible Stories inthe Pajonal Campa Language -- Campa Indian Stories. The Bibliographical Historical Study -- An Experimental Study. Goal Orientation and Campa Story Structure -- The Structure of a Campa Historical Narrative -- A Well-formed Genesis Story -- Meeting the Story Grammar Criteria -- Problems in Parsing -- Findings from Bibliographical Research -- Experimental Findings. Concerning the Structuring of Bible stories -- Concerning Teaching the Narratives. The underlying structure of the Toucan story -- The Underlying Structure-Nazaratequi Wars -- The underlying structure of the Call to Egypt Story -- The underlying structure of the abbreviated Flood Story -- The Underlying Structure-"Jacob's Death". Correspondence of Story Grammar Categories Following Rummelhart -- Summary of Rewrite Rules for a Simple Story Grammar -- The Relative Length and Complexity of "Jacob's Death" Compared with that of the Story Grammar Stories -- The Toucan and the Carpener Bird -- Joseph Calls Israel to Egypt (Genesis 45) -- The Worldwide Flood (Genesis 7) -- Comparison of Proportions of Recall -- Proportion of Recall of Basic Nodes of "Jacob's Death" by Age, Schooling, and Literacy -- Mean Reccall of "Jacob's Death" by Age, Schooling and Literacy in Comparison with Story Grammar Stories -- Jacob's Death -- Questions Facilitating Schematic Recall.




Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions.--Ministry Perspective Project.


Storytelling--Peru.
Storytelling--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Campa Indians--Missions.--Peru

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