RELS 3205 is also offered in Fall 2024
RELS 3205 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2020 | RELS 3205 Section 001: Women, Gender, and the Hebrew Bible (55559)
- 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:
CNES 3205 Section 001
JWST 3205 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How men, women, gender, sexuality is portrayed in Hebrew Bible. Social/religious roles/status of women in ancient Israel. Read 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?
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55559/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2018
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