Course details

Name: ENLT - 520

Title: HEBREW BIBLE OR OLD TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2020

Credits: 3

Description:
The Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) is a crucial document for understanding world literature. A key source text for the three monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - it is also the focal point of more than two millennia of interpretation, retelling, and creative appropriation. This course will take account of literary and historical aspects of the Hebrew Bible (in translation) as well as some of its early exegetical history. The reading assignments will include selections from critical sources and readings in the Hebrew Bible itself. The critical sources will include essays on the formal literary aspects of scripture, historical essays on early Israelite culture and religion, linguistic criticism that seeks to identify the multiple authors of the Hebrew Bible, and feminist criticism on its treatment of gender and sexuality. Although our focus will for the most part be fixed firmly on the Hebrew Bible in its own historical context, we will spend some time near the end of the term reading and discussing later Jewish and Christian ways of reading the Hebrew Bible. Agnostics, atheists, and students of all faiths are welcome in this class, and no previous experience with the Hebrew Bible is expected.

Last updated on 2019-10-30 By Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Behlman Lee (behlmanl)

Is course canceled: No