(original web document: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/Haas_web/RS106_syl.htm)


 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 106

The Hebrew Bible and its Interpretations


A course taught at Vanderbilt University (5,800 undergraduates and 4,200 graduate and professional students) in Fall of 1998. It is an introductory course that met for 3 hr/week for a 14-week semester. It was conducted as part lecture, part discussion.


 


Fall, 1998 CL 109
Prof. Peter Haas TA: Julye Bidmead
Peter.j.haas@vanderbilt.edu julye.m.bidmead@vanderbilt.edu
Garland 301-F; T2:30-3:45
ph: 322-6339

The course will be divided into six two-week modules, each centered around a particular Biblical text. Each module will run as follows:

 

 EXAMPLE PAPER

GRADING

MODULE

TOPIC

DUE DATE

% GRADE
One Noah's Flood

Sept 15

10%
Two Israel Gets a King

Sept 29

15%
Three Prophecy

Oct 13

15%
Four Biblical Society

Oct 27

15%
Five Bible in Western Religion

Nov 10

15%
Six Creation and Science

Dec 1

15%
FINAL Sisera and Yael

Dec 15

15%

 

CLASS SCHEDULE

Aug 27 Intro to course and the Bible

Sept 1-10: Module One: Noah's flood;Fllod

 

 

Anointing

  Sept 15-24 : Module Two: The Kingship [Samuel annoints Saul]

Prophet

 I DIGGEZER COMPUTER MODULE

Sept 29-Oct 8: Module Three: Prophecy

 

 

Ruth and Naomi

 

Oct 13-22: Module Four: Story and Law: Ruth

 

 

Aqedah

Oct 27-Nov 5: Module Five: Binding of Isaac;

 

Creation

Nov 10-19: Module Six: The Creation

* * * *THANKSGIVING BREAK* * * *

 

Dec 1-8: How the Bible Came to Be

 

Yael

 Dec 15: FINAL PAPER: The Story of Sisera and Yael