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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course is a theological, canonical, and ethical reading of Ruth and Esther with special attention given to the various ways in which these two books have been appropriated by Jews and Christians throughout their respective histories.
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3.00 Credits
Jonah the Disgruntled Prophet
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3.00 Credits
Jesus and his earliest followers lived and died as Jews. What came to be known as Christianity did not begin as an autonomous new religion, but rather as a movement within early Judaism. For this reason the earliest documentary remains of this movement preserved in the New Testament should be studied in the first instance as Jewish texts. This course introduces the literature, groups, beliefs and practices that comprised Second Temple Judaism. It will selectively illustrate how knowledge of early Judaism enlightens our understanding of the ministry of Jesus and the writings of the New Testament.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the politics of the Bible through a study of the empires that shaped the worlds of the OT and NT and the dynamics of life under empire for Jews and Christians. The course focuses primarily(but not exclusively) on an in-depth study of the Greco-Roman and Jewish political contexts of the first-century CE. It also analyzes the explicit and implicit political statements of the New Testament, from the Gospels' claims about Jesus' identity to Pauline and Johnnine passages addressing the relationship of Christians to the government. The course utilizes a broad range of scholarly approaches to the text, allowing students to explore both ancient and contemporary understandings of "the politics of the Bible."
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3.00 Credits
A concentrated study of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon with special attention to their meaning and relevance for modern life. The basic frame of reference will be Wisdom's creation theology and its relation to biblical faith as well as other living faiths of the world.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will introduce the study of the Bible's reception history and the complicated relationship of reception history to traditional historical-critical methods of biblical study. More specifically, we will analyze cinematic retellings and appropriations of biblical stores as a significant avenue of the Bible's reception in modern culture. We will learn that the interface between the Bible and culture- like all biblical interpretation- is shaped by the interpreter's social and historical context, ideology, and medium. This course will also cover the basics of film criticism as the most appropriate tools for analyzing the audio-visual language into which these films translate the Bible. Finally, we will consider how our cultural influences the ongoing transmission of the biblical tradition and vice versa.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study our main canonical witnesses to Jesus--the Gospels. We will see how the Gospels present Jesus similarly and differently, notice main themes in the canonical presentation of Jesus, attend to post-biblical appropriations of Jesus (e.g., political, cultural, scholarly, literary and cinematic appropriations), and think together about how Jesus can and ought to shape Christian faith and faithfulness.
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3.00 Credits
A theological and hermeneutical investigation of biblical texts in both the Old and New Testament that depict and often seemingly legitimate acts of violence. It provides an overview of how these "texts of terror" have been appropriated by communities of faith throughout history and an exploration of how to read such texts and scripture.
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3.00 Credits
The history of the interpretation of Paul from the early Church to scholars of the modern period precedes an in-depth study of Paul's life and thought as presented in Acts and his letters.
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3.00 Credits
A study of biblical perspectives on issues related to the marginalized, particularly slaves, children, widows, foreigners, and the disabled. The course covers Old Testament law, Jesus' parables, Paul's economics, and the social world of the Bible. The course utilizes insights from post-colonial, liberation, family, and social-scientific studies; it also considers the reception history of these issues in early Christianity.
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