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02/01 - 05/21 | ||||||
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Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 26238
Online: Asynchronous | Topics Lecture 9
Online
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Phil/Theo
OR
Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
Theology courses numbered 221-229 are reserved for students on the new core curriculum. If this section of the class appears to have very few seats, it is because the rest of the seats in the classroom will be occupied by students on the “old core.” This course examines women in the Hebrew Bible by reconstructing the status and roles of women during the biblical periods, investigating the conceptions of gender in the text, and analyzing the history of biblical interpretation.
4 Credits
02/01 - 05/21 | ||||||
M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
+ asynchronous coursework |
Subject: Theology (UG) (THEO)
CRN: 26239
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Faith/Catholic Trad
UG Core Human Diversity
Other Requirements Met:
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
NOTE: This course is for students on the “old core.” Students on the new core should take any THEO 221-229 if they are choosing to take the third required course on philosophical and theological reasoning in Theology. This course explores the topic of women and the Old Testament from several different vantage points. In the first place, it will try to reconstruct the status and roles of women during the biblical periods at various points in their ancient Near Eastern context. This reconstruction will involve an examination of the legal and narrative material of the Old Testament and cross-cultural studies on women and family life in non-industrial countries. Secondly, the course investigates the conceptions of gender in the Old Testament, including key texts such as the creation stories, the stories about the ancestors, the stories about family honor, the female characters of the historical books of the Bible, the books named after women (Ruth, Esther, Judith), the texts symbolizing women as evil (e.g., the foreign woman, the adulterous wife, the whore of Babylon). Finally, the course studies the interpretive work of biblical scholars and how they utilize various historical and literary-critical methodologies in order to bring issues of gender, race, and class to bear upon the biblical text. Prerequisite: THEO 101 and one 200-level or 300-level THEO course
4 Credits