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Session
|
Topic |
Assignment |
Due |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Introduction | ||
2 |
How to Read the Bible | ||
3 |
Primeval History | Outline and compare the genealogies of Gen 5 and 11. | 8/29/05 |
4 |
Call of Abram | Outline the genealogy of Gen 11:26-30 and 22:20-24. In light of your outline and what is related in Gen 12:1-3, why is 11:30 so shocking? | 8/31/05 |
5 |
Quiz #1 | ||
6 |
Life of Abraham | Outline the similarities between 21:9-21 and 22:1-24; what is the significance of them? | 9/5/05 |
7 |
Joseph, part 1 | Levenson writes (p. 154): "Human nature, the story makes clear, is not constituted so as to facilitate the acceptance of chosenness." How is this illustrated in the character of Joseph? | 9/7/05 |
8 |
Optional Session: The Bible & Prayer | ||
9 |
Joseph, part 2 | Levenson writes (p. 163): "The enormous power behind Judah's offer derives from the complicated set of substitutions that it articulates." Explain. | 9/12/05 |
10 |
Covenant Formulary | Compare the structure of Joshua 24 to the Hittite Covenant | 9/14/05 |
11 |
Quiz #2 | ||
12 |
The Law | What is meant by the distinction between "one God" and "one Lord"? | 9/19/05 |
13 |
Ruth | The book has two minor characters (Orpah and next-of-kin) that play a major role. Explain what purpose they serve in the story. | 9/21/05 |
14 |
No Class | ||
15 |
Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah | In both Gen 8:1 and 19:29 God remembers something. What does he remember and how are the two acts of remembering similar and different? | 9/26/05 |
16 |
The Golden Calf | Compare the prayers of intercession that Moses makes in both Exodus and Numbers. What is similar and what is different? | 9/28/05 |
17 |
Optional Session: Catholic and Protestant Bibles | ||
18 |
Jonah, part 1 | Describe how the divine attributes are used by Jonah in 4:2. How does this compare to other places in scripture? | 10/3/05 |
19 |
Jonah, part 2 | What pedagogic role does the bush play (4:5ff.)? | 10/5/05 |
20 |
Quiz #3 | ||
21 |
The Exile and Eschatology | Read II Chronicles 36 and Ezra very carefully [including the annotations!] and describe how the prophecy of Jeremiah 25:11-12 functions within them. You will probably also need to refer to the essay by McBride to get the historical context and the dates of the Babylonian exile and the return from exile straight. | 10/10/05 |
22 |
Jesus, the Exile and the Gospel of Mark | Mark loves to begin a story, interrupt it with another story and
then finish the story he began with. Consider the following
examples where the verses put in brackets represent a second narrative
that has been "sandwiched" between an outer narrative frame. In
each case the external frame would read more smoothly if the second
narrative had not been interpolated within it. So for example,
read 6:7-14 and skip directly to v. 30 and then read 15-29.
3:19-35 [22-30]
5:21-43 [25-34]
6:7-30 [15-29]
11: 12-25 [15-19]
14: 53-72 [55-65].
Take a look at all of these to make sure you understand the
pattern. Then examine more closely 6:7-30 and
14:1-11. What interpretive role do you think is played by
the interpolated narrative? In other words why does Mark
tell the story in this strange way? For 6:7-30 compare the way in
which the narrative unit is treated in Luke (see Luke 9:1-11) and
Matthew ( see Matt 10:1-15).
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10/12/05 |
23 |
No Class | ||
24 |
The Passion in the Gospel of Mark | Do the disciples know who Jesus is? | 10/24/05 |
25 |
Jesus and Chosenness | Why are the interrogations of Jesus and Peter interwoven in 14:53-72? | 10/26/05 |
26 |
Quiz #4 | ||
27 |
Resurrection | Compare Ezekiel's prophecy of the resurrection with the narratives in the NT. | 10/31/05 |
28 |
Jewish Law and Early Christianity | What are the issues about the Jewish law that confronted the early church? Do these NT texts express a similar point of view or are they different? | 11/2/05 |
29 |
Optional Session: The Immaculate Conception | ||
30 |
The Season of Advent | What does Seitz mean when he says: "But the larger point is that the horizon of Isaiah in respect of royal promises is not a past fulfillment in Jesus that validates Christian hopes and invalidates those of Jews." | 11/7/05 |
31 |
Doctrine of Original Sin | How is the doctrine of the fall related to scripture? | 11/9/05 |
32 |
Quiz #5 | ||
33 |
Doctrine of Creation | How does John's account of creation relate to that of Proverbs or Sirach? | 11/14/05 |
34 |
Doctrine of Atonement | Why did God become man? | 11/16/05 |
35 |
Optional Review Session | ||
36 |
Quiz #6 | ||
37 |
No Class | ||
38 |
Handing Jesus over to Death | Who are the betrayers of Jesus? | 11/28/05 |
39 |
Poverty of Spirit (Johannes Baptist Metz) | How is Jesus God according to Metz? | 11/30/05 |
40 |
Optional Session: The Blessed Virgin Mary | ||
41 |
The Creed | ||
42 |
The Creed (continued) |
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