The New Testament and Its Contexts BIB512
The New Testament and Its Contexts offers students an overview of the literature, theologies, and historical and social settings of the New Testament. The course places special emphasis on understanding the emergence of the Jesus movement within Second Temple Judaism. Students can expect to gain competencies in understanding both the Jewish and Roman imperial social settings of the New Testament, along with the ways the earliest Christians negotiated, disrupted, and/or perpetuated hierarchies of power entangled in empire, ethnic reasoning, class, and gender. In addition to historical questions, the course offers students ample opportunities to practice a 鈥減eace hermeneutic鈥� in the Anabaptist tradition by engaging application of the text for the church鈥檚 peace witness and the flourishing of all humanity. This is the second of two courses in the Introductory Bible Sequence.