Thoughts from Culhwch

So, I’m still musing over bits and pieces of a conversation from earlier. What do we do when we are confronted in the Bible with collections of teachings? On the one hand there is an impulse to try to link them together in an a->b->c fashion. Each point then participates directly in the next. But I’ve had way to much literary theory to be comfortable with this. The other method of making sense asks, do each of these teachings fit under a rubric. This feels a little less invasive to me, like I’m being a little more honest with the text. The third way is just to say that the miscellaneous is ok, and that we need not link the them all together at all. The thing is … none of these can really be generalized into a nice rule.