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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron/Robert R. Hann Paul continues to fascinate and puzzle Christians. This course will introduce Paul and three generations of Pauline literature found in the New Testament to provide a socio-historical context for exploring the questions and challenges posed by those letters and epistles. Particular attention is given to Paul's theology, with an important survey of the socio-psychological and anthropological assumptions, which informed his story of Christ as the crucial turning point in both human and salvation history.
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3.00 Credits
George P. Heyman/Mark Brummitt An introduction to the elements of classical Hebrew grammar and vocabulary.
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3.00 Credits
George P. Heyman A continuation of Biblical Hebrew I focusing on basic grammar and chiefly irregular verbs. The course will include reading, translation and exegetical reflection on selected texts of both prose and poetry from the Hebrew Bible, as well as systematic vocabulary building.
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3.00 Credits
Robert R. Hann Biblical Greek I is the first-semester introduction to the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of Koiné Greek. Using the classic grammar of Wenham, students will learn the fundamentals of New Testament Greek, mastering the tools prerequisite to accomplished reading of the Greek text, the focus of the second semester.
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3.00 Credits
Robert R. Hann Biblical Greek II builds on knowledge and understanding of the basic grammatical forms and constructions found in the Greek New Testament. Emphasis is also placed on examining the application of this grammatical understanding to actual New Testament texts, and on exploring how a particular grammatical form or usage can help the student in interpreting and understanding a specific text.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This course surveys the third generation of Pauline writings known as the Pastoral Epistles (1 & 2 Timothy and Titus). Each letter will be analyzed in its historical, literary, and cultural setting, with special attention devoted to the socio-political, theological, and ecclesial factors that prompted the challenging teachings contained therein.
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Mark Brummitt A study of creation stories from the ancient world with special attention on those in the Old Testament. While the course is primarily exegetical-engaged in close reading of the Biblical text-there willalso be time for comparative, cultural, and theological reflection.
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3.00 Credits
Mark Brummitt An exegetical study taking into account the historical contexts of the Book of Jeremiah, theories of the book's formation, and the history of its reception, whilst using a variety of interpretative approaches to negotiate this most tricky of biblical texts.
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3.00 Credits
Mark Brummitt During the last two decades there has been a shift from the "historical-critical" methods that had previously dominatedbiblical criticism, to a sometimes bewildering variety of theoretical approaches to the text. This course will engage in a critical investigation of a number of such approaches, always with a view to aid creative, if not audacious, interpretation of the Bible.
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3.00 Credits
Mark Brummitt An exegetical study and study of exegesis, this course will not only involve a critical examination of three texts from the Old Testament, but also the reading strategies used to interpret them. As we read, we will take into account such things as narration, characterization, plot, and style, observing, too, the representation or production of ideologies such as national and sexual identities.
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