ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Classical and Near Eastern Std Classes

Spring 2017 | CNES 3202 Section 001: Prophecy in Ancient Israel (52899)

Instructor(s): Hanne Levinson
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: JWST 3202 Section 001
RELS 3202 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 119

Course Catalog Description:: Survey of Israelite prophets. Emphasizes Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah. Prophetic contributions to Israelite religion. Personality of prophets. Politics, prophetic reaction. Textual analysis, biblical scholarship. Prophecy viewed cross-culturally. prereq: 1201 or 3201 or RELS 1001
Class Description:: What is prophecy? What is a prophet? What was the prophetic message, to whom did the prophet speak, and what did he/she convey? What was the prophet's social, political and religious role? This course seeks to understand prophecy in ancient Israel and the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament within the larger context of the ancient Near East. The course will provide an introduction to prophetic literature, to the different prophetic genres, to the formation of the prophetic books, and to the study of imagery and metaphor. One fascinating feature of the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible is the way it is reused in later art, literature, and music; some examples of this phenomenon will be discussed in the course as well. We will be reading biblical texts from an academic point of view and the main goal of the course is to learn how to read closely, to think critically about the meaning of a text, and to differentiate between what the texts say and what later times have understood the texts to say.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52899/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 28 December 2015

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