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BIB213 Hermeneutics: Genre Homework

This assignment is due as indicated in class and requires you to access my faculty web page and in this order: (1) listen to the famous 1938 Halloween broadcast of the War of the Worlds; and (2) read up on the historical facts surrounding the broadcast in the accompanying information sheet.

After you have completed steps (1) and (2) answer the following questions:

1. Give a good dictionary definition of the word “genre” and two examples of how the word might be used in a sentence.





2. Briefly summarize in your own words the historical facts surrounding this famous broadcast.






3. Explain clearly what went wrong on the night of October 30, 1938, and why. Why did people misunderstand what they heard? For full credit your answer here will need to make (intelligent!) use of the word genre.










4. Identify specifically the two genres that were (deliberately?) confused in this famous radio broadcast: ____________________      _______________________