The Hebrew Bible and Its Contexts BIB511E
The Hebrew Bible and Its Contexts offers students an overview of the literature, theologies, and historical and social settings of the Hebrew Bible. By examining texts from the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, students will learn to situate the biblical genres of narrative, law, history, wisdom, prophecy, poetry, and apocalypse within the diverse literature of the Ancient Near East. This course places special emphasis on the complex sociopolitical identities of biblical writers while centering the perspectives of marginalized interpreters. By integrating historical, literary, cultural, ideological, and theological methods, students can expect to gain competencies in interpreting the Bible for the church today. This course offers students ample opportunities to practice a 鈥減eace hermeneutic鈥� in the Anabaptist tradition by engaging appli-cation of the text for the church鈥檚 peace witness and the flourishing of all humanity. This is the first of two courses in the Introductory Bible Sequence.