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3.00 Credits
Exegesis of Ruth/Esther
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3.00 Credits
Linda Day This course will consider the concept and use of lamentation, broadly defined. Its focus will be an assortment of texts from the Hebrew Bible that represent the experience of suffering and the voicing of lamentation, including psalms, the book of Lamentations, and various narrative and poetic materials. The course will also include instances of lamentation from ancient Near Eastern and classical Greek literature. We will explore the role that such textual articulations of grief play in the formulation of theological conceptualizations of tragedy, theodicy, and evil. The biblical texts will lead us into consideration of the psychological effects of trauma on its victims, as well as the potential of lamentation for healing woundedness and countering injustice. In addition, the variety of contemporary responses to recent tragedies of international and national scope will be part of our purview throughout the course. Attention will be given to the role played by gender-the particular voice that women give to suffering and lamentation in the biblical materials.
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3.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos This course offers study in a broad range of psalms with a view to theological themes and literary structure. A survey of the history of psalm scholarship is included. Specific analysis will be done of the work of contemporary scholars Adele Berlin and Robert Alter. Analysis will be applied to their work from the Hebrew text. Prerequisites: The Elements of Biblical Hebrew, Introduction to Old Testament Exegesis, Scripture I.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the variety of ways God is characterized, primarily in the Old Testament Prophetic Literature, as acting, reacting vis-a-vis the world, and more especially humankind. Some of the questions considered are: How does God affect the world How does God feel How is God righteous, merciful, and just The dynamic engagement of the divine with the human will be emphasized over more static or deistic views. Lectures, student presentations, written projects, and discussion are part of the learning experience.
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3.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos Come and sit at the feet of Woman Wisdom and Qohelet. Explore riches of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, texts that are frequently neglected in the world of biblical theology. We will consider the connections between this literature and Reformed understandings of revelation, Christology, and the Christian Life, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos In this course we will study biblical scholarship from feminist perspectives with particular attention given to voices from groups that are marginalized in multiple ways in U.S. culture and religion. The broad perspective of the course is thus liberationist feminist. We will review the historical and current subjugation of all women, their disenfranchisement in religion, education and other areas of life, with particular attention paid to the impact of oppressive ideologies and practices in U.S. culture in terms of African-American women and other oppressed cultures and groups as Native American women and Latina women. We will consider also the history of women's participation and their contributions in the construction of ideas, particularly the world of religious thought. We will explore the roots and development of feminist/womanist/ mujerista/native feminist biblical criticism and its various contemporary expressions by reviewing some major representatives of scholars who practice a liberationist feminist hermeneutic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will offer a consideration of the influence of Deuteronomistic theology on the development of biblical faith. Investigation will center on three primary themes: Providence, Prophecy, and Peoplehood. Each theme will be explored with the intention of seeing how the Deuteronomistic theologians used traditional elements in Israel's faith and to see how the work of these theologians has been appropriated.
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3.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos "A stranger you must not oppress; you yourselves know the heart of a stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (Ex. 23:9). This course offers reflections on the importance of "hospitality to the stranger," with itsscope in the biblical text and its ramifications for contemporary life. Issues to be explored will be, among others: the importance of the Torah for the life of the Christian community; the identity of "strangers" both in a biblicaland contemporary context; the nature of the oppression of strangers; and the meaning and significance of hospitality.
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2.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos This course will include a translation of two chapters of Exodus, followed by a verse-byverse analysis, with a reading of the Masoretic annotations to each verse. Midrashic and Talmudic material will be used for this study. This course is for those students who want to perfect their technical studies in Hebrew and Hebrew Bible. Prerequisites: The Elements of Biblical Hebrew, Introduction to Old Testament Exegesis, Scripture I.
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3.00 Credits
Johanna W.H. Bos This is an introductory course in which students will study the birth and development of Liberation Theology in Latin America. Subsequently, the expressions of liberation theology will be examined in Asia, Africa, and North America. The goal is for the student to gain a broadly-based insight into these new theologies.
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