Spring 2017  |  CNES 3205 Section 001: Women, Gender, and the Hebrew Bible (66944)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
JWST 3205 Section 001
RELS 3205 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
How men, woman, gender, sexuality is portrayed in Hebrew Bible. Social/religious roles/status of women in ancient Israel. Reading biblical texts from academic point of view.
Class Description:
"And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man" (Gen 2:22). Few texts have been more influential for the western world's thinking about men, women, gender, and sexuality than the creation stories of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Yet there is a considerable debate on how to best understand these texts. In this course you will get familiar with this debate. We will examine questions such as: How is man, woman, gender, and sexuality portrayed in the Hebrew Bible/Old testament? What do we know about the social and religious roles and status of women in ancient Israel? Is the God of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament presented as a gendered God? What does it mean to read the Bible from a gender perspective, and what is feminist hermeneutics? 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 texts 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. The course and semester is organized around four main themes: 1. Bible studies, gender studies, and the combination thereof, 2. Close reading and reception history of Gen 1-3 3. Women in biblical texts and in ancient Israel 4. Gendered God-language, a gendered God?
Grading:
Other Grading Information: One paper 25% Two midterm exams 30% (15% and 15%) Final exam 30% 2 presentations, 3 book reports and class participation 15%
Class Format:
70% Lecture
25% Discussion
5% Student Presentations
Workload:
75 Pages Reading Per Week
10-15 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
3 Book Report(s)
Other Workload: 2 midterm exams (non-cumulative) 1 final exam (cumulative)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66944/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 January 2015

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