23 courses with the subject BIB, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BIB 101Introduction to Bible - 2 Separate Sessions2
Dr. Ora Horn Prouser and Dr. Job Jindo This course will introduce the student to modern critical studies of the Bible. Selected texts of the Bible will be studied in-depth while broader thematic issues will be surveyed. Various methodologies used by biblical scholars will be introduced to the students. The many meanings of the text and the centrality of the Bible in the Jewish world will be emphasized through careful study. This course is a prerequisite for all Bible study at AJR. Students in this course must be at the level of Hebrew IA or above. Required Texts - Dr. Job Jindo: 1. The Hebrew Bible [any edition will do-be sure to have a hardcopy with you when attending each class] 2. Berlin, Adele and Brettler, Marc Zvi The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition Amazon $35.99 ISBN: 0199978468 3. Fishbane, Michael, The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot: (English and Hebrew Edition Amazon $68.41 ISBN 0827606915
Dr. Malka Strasberg Edinger This course explores the book of Judges, a book about Israel’s formative years as a nation learning to self-govern. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the stories, themes, and historical background of the texts, as it explores the characteristics and roles of leaders and ideological approaches to the notion of leadership in the book. Together we will examine the book of Judges in its historical, canonical, and theological contexts, using a variety of analytical approaches, including literary, exegetical, historical, historiographical, intertextual, masoretic, gender and animal studies. This course satisfies the Leadership in the Bible: Nevi’im Rishonim requirement. Required Texts: 1. The Koren Classic Tanakh Ma’alot Edition, Amazon, $24.95 ISBN: 9653011812 a different, comparable edition of the Tanakh is acceptable, as well
In order to count this class as a biblical text class, students must have taken Introduction to Bible. Otherwise, students may count this class as an elective.
BIB 321Erotica, Melancholia and Parodia: A Close Look at Shir Hashirim, Eikhah and Esther
BIB 323Sex and the City In The Bible: Ruth, Esther, and Lady Jerusalem2
Dr. Job Y. Jindo This course offers a close critical reading of Ruth, Esther, and Lamentations, three biblical texts centered on female figures whose stories raise enduring questions about identity, belonging, and moral agency. Through these narratives, students will develop interpretive skills and be able to articulate the structure, purpose, and theological outlook of each text, as well as identify ways in which these works shed light on the human condition today. Topics of discussion include rights discourse vs. identity discourse, the eclipse of God and emergence of human agency, empathy and justice, enticement and manipulation, hatred and metonymic thinking, identity and violence, love and forgiveness, politics and strangers, primordial and multicultural identi new course Required Textbooks: Schwartz, Baruch J. Jewish Study Bible [2d edition]. New York. Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN: 019026389X 9780190263898 Amazon $34.95 Cohn Eskenazi, Tamara, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Ruth. JPS Commentary: Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2011, ISBN: 082760744X Amazon $33.31 Berlin, Adele. Esther. JPS Commentary: Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2001, ISBN: 0827606990 Amazon $38.31 Berlin, Adele. Lamentations. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2002, ISBN: 0664218490 Amazon $29.93
BIB 347Leviticus Reconsidered: The Reality Of the Holy and the Choreography of the Sacred2
Dr. Job Y. Jindo Many find the book of Leviticus too difficult to understand. Its cultic concerns seem obsolete and boring, and its rules of sacrifices and ritual purity appear to have no relevance to the social, existential, and normative issues of our time. And yet, we live in the “ Golden Age of Parashat Hashavua (Weekly Torah portion),” and Jewish clergies are expected to know how to draw insight from this seemingly outmoded and arcane book. This course is a close critical reading of Leviticus, revolving around the contemporary relevance of this text. By the conclusion of this course, the student will learn: (1) the structure, purposes, and theological outlook of Leviticus; (2) the theology of holiness and the idea of biblical ecology as reflected in Leviticus; last offered Spring 2024 Required Textbooks: Jewish Study Bible [2d edition]. New York. Oxford University Press, 2015 [The book of Leviticus is annotated by Baruch J. Schwartz; the 1st edition is also fine] ISBN: 019026389X Amazon $39.98 Milgrom, Jacob. Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. ISBN: 0800695143, 9780800695149 Amazon $53.81 Levine, Baruch A. Leviticus: JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989. ISBN: 0827603282 Amazon $20.89
BIB 461B’tzelem Elohim: Biblical Text through the Lens of Disability Studies2
Dr. Ora Horn Prouser Hafokh bah v’hafokh bah d’khulei bah. Turn it over and over for everything is in it ( Pirke Avot ). Each time we view the Bible through a new lens, we add to our understanding of the text, we learn more about ourselves, and we widen the impact of the Bible on the Jewish community. Using close readings, we will approach the biblical text through Disability Studies. We will see how viewing certain biblical personalities through this lens provides access to new dimensions of their characters and the texts in which we encounter them. We will then consider the character of God in the Bible and how God too can be more deeply appreciated through the perspective of Disability Studies. Our exploration of this topic will be placed in the broader context of is This course will count as a Bible elective or as a General Elective. This course in an onsite Intersession course. Required Texts: Prouser, Dr. Ora Horn, Esau’s Blessing How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs, pp. 1-19, Amazon, $13.10 ISBN 1934730351 Muffs, Dr. Yochanan and Hartman, David, Personhood of God: Biblical Theology, Human Faith and the Divine Image, pp. 55-60; 97-102, Amazon $25.99 ISBN 1580232654 Eisland, Nancy L., The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, pp. 89-105, Amazon $15.89 ISBN 0687108015 Solomon, Far From the Tree, pp. 221-294 Prizant,PhD, Barry M. and Fields-Meyer, Tom, Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism, pp. 1-11, Amazon $14.99 ISBN 1982193891 Grandin, Tample and Sacks, Oliver, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism, pp. 33-57, Amazon $10.49 ISBN 0307275655 Higashida,Naoki The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, pp. 3-15, Amazon $11.29 ISBN 081298515X Lorberbaum, Yair, In God’s Image: Myth, Theology and Law in Classical Judaism, p. 1-45, Amazon, $114.91 ISBN 1107063272
