| This course, The Bible as Literature,
is a systematic general introduction to the literary forms of the Bible.
Emphasis will be placed on recent and respected impartial literary,
linguistic, historical, anthropological, sociological, and theological
scholarship. Before coming to the first class, students should have read Genesis; Exodus; I Samuel 8-31; II Samuel 2-24, I and II Kings; and Amos and Hosea. Required Texts: The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, Third Edition (Hardcover 9700A) By Michael D. Coogan (Editor), Marc Z. Brettler (Editor) Carol A. Newson (Editor), Pheme Perkins (Editor), Oxford University Press, 3rd edition (February, 2001) ISBN 019528478X
The Literary Guide to the Bible. By Robert Alter (Editor) and Frank Kermode (Editor), The Bellnap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987. ISBN 0-674-87530-3 |