Course no. 653. Includes 24 lectures/30 minutes each. Course guidebook includes professor biographies, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary and bibliography. Lecturer, Amy-Jill Levine.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. In the beginning ; lecture 2. Adam and Eve ; lecture 3. Murder, flood, dispersion ; lecture 4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar ; lecture 5. Isaac ; lecture 6. The Jacob saga -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Folklore analysis and type scenes ; lecture 8. Moses and Exodus ; lecture 9. The God of Israel ; lecture 10. Covenant and law, part I ; lecture 11. Covenant and law, part II ; lecture 12. The "conquest" -- Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Book of Judges, part I -- lecture 14. The Book of Judges, part II ; lecture 15. Samuel and Saul ; lecture 16. King David ; lecture 17. From King Solomon to preclassical prophecy ; lecture 18. The prophets and the fall of the north -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. The southern kingdom ; lecture 20. Babylonian exile ; lecture 21. Restoration and theocracy ; lecture 22. Wisdom literature ; lecture 23. Life in the diaspora ; lecture 24. Apocalyptic literature.
Summary:
These twenty-four lectures offer an introduction to the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism as it is presented in the collection of texts called the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, and the Tanakh. Attention is given not only to the content of the biblical books but also to the debates over their meaning and the critical methods through which they have been interpreted.
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