2019 Spring ENGLISH 107 001 LEC 001

Spring 2019

ENGLISH 107 001 - LEC 001

The English Bible As Literature

Steven Goldsmith

Jan 22, 2019 - May 10, 2019
Tu, Th
03:30 pm - 04:59 pm
Class #:25904
Units: 4

Offered through English

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0
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Hours & Workload

2 to 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 0 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Final Exam

FRI, MAY 17TH
07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
GSPP 150

Other classes by Steven Goldsmith

Course Catalog Description

Introduction to the English Bible treated as a literary work.

Class Description

In this class, we will read a selection of biblical texts as literature; that is, we will read them in many ways but not as divine revelation. We will take up traditional literary questions of form, style, and structure, but we will also learn how to ask historical, political, and theoretical questions of a text that is multi-authored, thoroughly fissured, and complexly sedimented in its historical layers. Among other topics, we will pay special attention to how authority is established and contested in biblical texts; how biblical authors negotiate the ancient Hebrew prohibition against representing God in images; and how the gospels are socially and historically poised between the original Jesus movement that is their source and the institutionalization of the church that follows. Assignments will include a midterm exam, a paper, and a final exam. See also https://english.berkeley.edu/courses/5902

Class Notes

Book List

New Oxford Annotated Bible, College Edition; Alter, Robert: Genesis: Translation and Commentary; Browning, W.R.: Oxford Dictionary of the Bible

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills

Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

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