Class Syllabus

Assignment Schedule:

1. First Class September 5: Why Should We Read the Bible?
2. Week of September 10: Patterns of Memory; the Garden of Edena.
  1. Rebecca's Children Introduction
  2. CAS, 1-20
  3. Gen. 1-33.

Week of September 17: The Judges
(No Class Wednesday September 19: Rosh Hashanah)

  1. CAS 21-43
  2. Deuteronomy 26, Joshua 24
  3. Judges 1-16,17-21
4. Week of September 24: The Empiee of David and Solomon
(There will be Class Wednesday September 26 before Yom Kippur)
  1. CAS 44-59
  2. 1 Samuel 1-31
  3. 2 Samuel 1-24
  4. 1 Kings 1-11
5. Week of October 1 The Davidic and Zion Tradition
(Sukkot Wednesday October 3)
  1. CAS 60-72
  2. Genesis 14
  3. 2 Samuel 5:6-10; 7:1-17; 22:1-23:7
  4. Psalms 2, 18, 20, 45-48, 76, 84, 87, 101, 110, 132, 1446.

Weeks of October 8 and 15: The Yahwist
(NO CLASS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10)

  1. CAS 73-90
  2. Genesis 2-11, 12-16, 18-22, 24-34, 38, 49.
  3. Exodus 1-24,32,34
  4. Numbers 11-12, 14, 20-257.

Week of October 22: The Elohist Visions of God and Mana.

  1. CAS 91-116
  2. 2 Samuel 7-20, 1K 1-2
  3. Proverbs 10-31
  4. d. Genesis 37, 39-48, 50
  5. 1 Samuel 9-31
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8. Weeks of October 29 and November 5: Prophecy and The Assyrian Crisis
(No Class Monday November 5, Election Hotiday)
  1. CAS 116-131
  2. 1 Kings 12-2 Kings 17
  3. Amos
  4. Hosea
9. Week of November 12: Judah and the Assyrian Crisis
  1. CAS 132-150
  2. Isaiah 1-23, 28-39
  3. Micah
  4. 2 Kings 18-20
10. Week of November 19: NO CLASSES THANKSGIVING
11. Week of November 26: Jeremiah and Deuteronomy
  1. CAS 151-175
  2. Jeremiah
  3. *Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Obadiah12.

Week of December 3: Wisdom Literature and the Destruction of the Temple

  1. CAS 221-240
  2. Job
  3. Proverbs
  4. Song of Songs
  5. Psalm 137
  6. Lamentations
  7. *Jeremiah 30-32
13. Monday-December 10: Last Class: Job
14. Required Reading Days December 11-12
15. Examination Period December 13-20