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Course
Schedule
1/17 Introduction 1/24 Gabel,
et al, Ch I "The Bible as Literature"; Ch II "Literary
Forms and Strategies in the Bible"; Genesis
1-10 Oxford Companion to the Bible: General Introduction to Scholarly Interpretation of the Bible; Genesis First Reading Response Due: Questions 1/26 Genesis 11-50; Gabel, et al, Ch VI "The Formation of the Canon"; Greenblatt, "The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (pp. 76-99) Brief biography of Sir Thomas More 1/31 Buckner Trawick, "The Nature, Origin and Contents of the Bible"; Genesis, 11-50 Further Reading
of Interest: Second Reading Response Due: Questions |
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2/2 Gabel, Ch VII, "The Composition of the Pentateuch"; from Trawick, Ch 3 Greenblatt, "The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (pp. 100-114) 2/7 Third Reading Response Due: Questions 2/9 Gabel Ch V "The Physical Setting" Exodus 1-40; Oxford Companion
to the Bible: Exodus 2/16 Gabel, Ch IV "History"; Leviticus, 1-27; from Trawick, Ch 3 Oxford Companion to the Bible, Outlines and Commentary: Leviticus Numbers, 1-36; Oxford Companion to the Bible, Outlines and Commentary: Numbers Further Reading of Interest: David Biale, Review of Leviticus as Literature, by Mary Douglas The Interpreter's Bible, Commentary on Numbers 2/21 Fifth Reading Response Due: Questions 2/23 Deuteronomy; Joshua; ; from Trawick, Ch 3 Oxford Companion to the Bible, Outlines and Commentary: Deuteronomy John Welch, "Biblical Law in America" Oxford Companion to the Bible: Joshua Alan Cowell, "After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right" 2/28 Sixth Reading Response Due: Questions |
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3/2 Gabel, "Women and the Bible" 3/7 Seventh Reading Response Due: Questions |
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3/9
Elaine Pagels, from Adam, Eve
and the Serpent; Genesis,
1-5; esp Ch 1 (26-27); Ch.
2 (22-24); Milton,
Paradise Lost, Book
IV (Note: Especially lines 408-492); Study
Guide for Paradise Lost, Book IV; Milton, Paradise Lost,
Book V
(Note: Especially lines 26-156); Paradise Lost, Book VIII
(Note: Especially
lines 532-790); C. Froula, "When
Eve Reads Milton";
Study
Guide for Paradise Lost, Book V; First Study Guide for Paradise Lost, Book VIII (Note this study guide is for Book IX of the 1674 edition of Paradise Lost, but it corresponds to the first part of Book VIII of the 1667 edition which I have made available for you to read on line.) Second Study Guide for Paradise Lost, Book VIII (Note this study guide is for Book IX of the 1674 edition of Paradise Lost, but it corresponds to the second part of Book VIII of the 1667 edition which I have made available for you to read on line.) Further Reading of Interest: Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter on the Dignity of Women; 1 Timothy Ch. 2; Ephesians Ch. 5; St. Jerome (c. 320-420): On Marriage and Virginity, From Letter XXII to Eustochium and from the treatise Against Jovinian; Oxford Companion to the Bible, Outlines and Commentary: 1 Timothy |
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3/14 No
Class--Spring Vacation 3/16 No Class--Spring Vacation |
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3/21 Christine Froula, "When Eve Reads Milton" Eighth Reading Response Due: Questions |
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3/23 Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice 3/28 Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice NO QUESTIONS THIS WEEK! 3/30 Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice ; Daniel (KJV); Susannah (Apocrypha) Trawick, CH. 16: "The Daniel Cycle" (Note: See especially Trawick's account of the Aprophycal book of Susannah, pp. 322-330) Thomas H. Luxon, "A Second Daniel" 4/5 Ninth Reading Response Due: Questions 4/7 "The Rise and Fall of the Monarchy" Trawick, Ch 4 (pp. 85-97) Judges, especially
Ehud (ch. 3:12-30); Deborah (ch 4-5); Gideon (ch 6:1-8:32); Jephthah
(ch 10:6-12:7); (13); Samson (ch 13-16); Levite and Concubine (ch 19-21)
Oxford Companion to the Bible: Judges Further reading of Interest: G Miller, "Verbal Feud in the Hebrew Bible" |
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4/11 Tenth Reading Response Due: Questions 4/13 "The Rise and Fall of the Monarchy" Trawick, Ch 4 (pp. 97-111) |
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4/18 I Samuel, especially Birth and Rise of Samuel (ch 2-3); Saul becomes King (ch 8-10); Saul disobeys God, forfeits throne (ch 15); David becomes King (ch 16); David and Goliath (ch 17). II Samuel, especially David's relationship with Michal (ch. 3:13-16, 6:16-23); David's relationship with Bathsheba (chs 11-12); David's relationship with Absalom (chs 13-19) Oxford Companion to the Bible: I and II Samuel Eleventh Reading Response Due: Questions 4/21 "The Rise and Fall of the Monarchy" Trawick, Ch 4 (pp. 112-135) 4/26 Oxford Companion to the Bible: I and II Kings Twelfth Reading Response Due: Questions |
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4/28 Gabel, et al, Ch 8 "The Prophetic Writings" |
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5/3 Oxford Companion to the Bible: Isaiah Gerald Larue, "Isaiah and Micah" (Chapter 18 from Old Testament Life and Literature [1968]) (Note: Reading Responses are due on Thursday this week) |
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Thirteenth Reading Response Due: Questions 5/10 Fourteenth Reading Response Due: Questions |
