Saturday, July 1, 2017

Persuasion in the Bible

Leon Brooks; source:burningwell.org
Not all ideas that we have turn out to be great. Some, in fact, turn out to be very misguided and even wrong. I had one of those when I thought about reading through the whole Bible and gathering all the quotes I could find that dealt with persuasion, no matter how inconsequential. At the time (2012) I was reading books and influence and I was taken by the way Moses could stop God from smiting the Israelites when they complained too much or how Abraham negotiated his way into saving Sodom and Gomorrah (to no avail, as it turns out) and at the same time without incurring in God's anger.

The second half of the project was to match each instance with one of Cialdini's four principles of persuasion: reciprocation, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking, and authority.

I made my way all into Esdras in 2012, but then stopped the project for whatever reason. I didn't retake it because I decided that the Bible shouldn't be read in that way. However, for what it's worth, and a  community service, here's the raw data that I gathered with some annotations; it might come handy to someone someday:

Genesis

35 3.12
3.7 3.12 3.17
g4.3-5?
G4.8
G4.14-15
6.13
12.3 13.14-18 15.17-21 17.1-22 17.27
12.13
13.8
14.17
15.2?
15.9
16.2
16.6
16.10-12
18.6
18.23-32 (19.4)
19.2-3
19.5
19.8
19.14
19.16
19.17 disaster movie
19.20-22
19.31-36
20.2
20.4,17
21.10 21.12
21.16-17
21.22
22.2
22.5
22.9
23.4-11
24.2-8 .41
24.12-14
24.17 24.22
24.31
24.33
24.34-49 story .52
24.54
25.30/25.31-32
26.2-6
26.11
26.6
26.28
27.2-5
28.8
28.13 esp
28.18-29
28.37
28.13,20
29.15-19
29.27
30.1-5
30.14-15
30.27-43
31.13
31.24
31.43
32.5,18-22 33.4 33.8
32.27
33.19
34.2-3
34.8-31
35.1/
35.2/
35.11
37.14/
37.18
37.21
37.26
37.36
38.8
38.11
38.16-20
38.24
39.7-13
40.4¿
42.2
42.19 43.7,43.18
43.4-14,42.37
44.18-34
47.29
50.4-6
50.15-19

Ex
1.9-11
2.7 sargon
2.23 3.7 
3.5
3.11-20
4.1-9
4.10-17 4.19
4.27
4.30-31
5.1-5, 4.21(7.13,8.11) 7.8-11.10
5.9,5.21
8.24
10.2
10.11-10.24
12.36
13.17
14.10 on end 15.24 16.2, (16.4),17.4
15.26
16.32
17.11
18.17
19.5+19.9
24.5,7
30.11 census
32.1
32.9-10+32.11-13
32.22(32.11,32.9)
32.27
32.31(32.10)
33.12-17 (33.3)
(36.5)

Lev
10.1-3
10.16-20??
11.45
18.1,5,21,(24,20.22-27),19.4,20.---- 26--- nm3.13

Num
Ark-1.51
10.29
11.1 problems arise
11.4-fin .21 makes matters worse
12.11
13.30-13.33,14.1-9 14.5 esp
14.12 (Desperate times call for desperate measures)-14.19 (ex 34.6)
14.42
16.4-35 16.28---17.7
17.20
20.4-game of chicken
20.17 proper negotiation 21.5-fails
21.2
22.15
22.3
22.18,23.7 23.18 23.25, 24.3,24.15 31.9
32.1-27

Deut
1.21
4.3,6,11,15(curtail) 32-34
5.24-27(Contrast and commitment)
13.1[on completeness]
18.16(num 12.6) commit
28.15--volume& vividness
29- proof of own eyes
30.15 ease

Js
2.5 time pressure
2.12 precommit hare krishnas ---trouble,forgiving the heathen compare-1kin 20.42
6.9 consistency
9.3-27 priming consistency- flattery commitment
21.3-21.4 authority
22.16-34 previous incident; turn argument on its head- 12 th night gambit, mirror, interest of the party

Jg - generally crime& punishment - conditioning 3.9,3.15,4.3, 10.15- somewhat different--10.16,
1.12 caleb's daughter
1.14 incited
1.24 quid
4.6 lay out
4.8 assurance or coresponsability
4.18 woman on the road
6.11-24, 36-40 proof
9.2 liking & contrast
9.22 problem & way out
9.53 as pyrrus
11.8 12th night, deal
11.12-28 put forth reasons, no agreement: batna: war
11.30 jephtha's promise
13.16 angel wont eat
14.3 because that's the one
14.15 threat
14.16 tears first strike ( frame)-17- persistance bugged
15.1-3 neg fails
15.8 as in ex but better received
16.5 transactional princely amount
16.6,10,13 direct 16.5 blackmail, persistance once more pays
16.28 one last
17.10 transaction
17.13 consistency
18.19 glad to be taken by force
19.3 heart + maybe gifts
19.7, 9 insistance
19.12 as us
19.20 same as gn 19.4 1984 interpose someone
19.30 shock

Rt
1.11 best way
1.18 unmovable
3.1 full plan (ease)

Sam
1.11 quid?
1.26 authority plead and threat
8.5 all bases covered, as others do
8.11-18 disuasion
9.7 quid pro
9.20 interests authority & wonder  9.27 10.2
10.19 old formula
11.3 deal? Buy time
12.18 proof for all who may have forgotten 12.20 contrast
14.24 direst threat
14.38 humor
15.30 pleading, pathetism doesn't jibe nontheless
16.2 resistance; carried on- all solved: 16.3
17.8 false disjuntive + consistency
18.20 authority, bait, 18.25 ease
19.4 Consistency
21.3 authority
21.14 consistency
22.3 just please?
24.7 contrast? (24.12)  The enormity of the deed or 24.7 ploy (26.9 once more and real reason); 24.12 consistency(in law maybe), proverb, more contrast, repetition, authority, reciprocity?
25.6 reciprocation
25.18 underlying interest, 25.24 humiliation+liking 25,25 fast talk, 25,26 highest authority
25.40 own fame, he can send others
27.5 liking consistency
28.8 more like testing
30.15 reciprocity
31.4 fear trumps

2sam

3.12 quid
10.3 fear & lack of sense
13.5-12 dubious strategy; pity
13.16 contrast, pity
14.5 story
15.1-10 contrast, ease, liking, demagoguery
20.16-22 fill both interests
21.3 interests

1 ki
1.7 Authority. Forgot Nathan
2.13 Neutralizes with peace. Contrast, shame, consistency, authority, liking. Why fail? 2.25
12.6 so far, so good; 12.8 maybe he hunts for the answer he likes
13.18 similar & authority; even holy men are subject
17.20 consistency
18.15 oath defuses tirade
18.20-40 vivid performance,live, credible
21.2 properly reasoned plus alternative
21.3 shucks. Time to find underlying interests
21.8 authority
22.22 authority and numbers

2 ki
5.5 authority, reciprocation
5.13 contrast
6.19 these are not the droids you are looking for
16.7-9 reciprocation
18.14 contrast by humiliation? Give something that has more value to the recipient
18.19-35 contrast mainly, authority
19.10-19.13 contrast, self verification

1cro
17.16-23-26 Pulls a Moses. At least wins time for renewal. Consistency

2cro
2.2 Consistency +plans+ cities deal+ sustenance 2.9
13.4-12 epiditic rhetoric + contrast
29.6-11 recount, own eyes,all together
30.6-9 contrast, verifiable, deal-reciprocation
32.10-15 fear
35.21 ignorance, fear of loss

Esd
4.2 authority, tradition
4.3 higher authority
4.12-16 loaded words, fear of loss, personalization, see for yourself- yet not a proof
8.15 which words?
10.8 contrast


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