19 courses with the subject CS, 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.
An introduction to the earlier literature and thought of the Old Testament with reference to its canonical and ancient Near Eastern contexts, concentrating on the Torah and Former Prophets (Genesis - 2 Kings), but introduction the Latter Prophets in context.
An introduction to the elements of classical Hebrew grammar and vocabulary.
A continuation of Biblical Hebrew I, focusing on basic grammar and chiefly irregular verbs. The course will include reading, translation and exegetical reflection on selected texts of both prose and poetry from the Hebrew Bible, as well as systematic vocabulary building.
Biblical Greek I is the first-semester introduction to the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of Koiné Greek. Students will learn the fundamentals of New Testament Greek, mastering the tools prerequisite to accomplished reading of the Greek text, the focus of the second semester.
Biblical Greek II builds on knowledge and understanding of the basic grammatical forms and constructions found in the Greek New Testament. Emphasis is also placed on examining the application of this grammatical understanding to actual New Testament texts, and on exploring how a particular grammatical form or usage can help the student in interpreting and understanding a specific text. 19 student. one-week course Instructor
This course explores the documents of the New Testament in their literary, historical, socio-cultural, and religious contexts and develops students’ expertise in dealing with the materials and methods of critical study of the New Testament. Through this course students will not only gain a broad understanding of the growth and development of the early church but also be prepared to interpret the New Testament texts in their life and ministry contexts.
The Bible has been received and read not only in the West but also in the rest of the world. This course facilitates reading the Bible with others— global Christian communities in Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The course helps students not only engage with other ways of reading in the global context but also recognize the contextual nature of their own readings. In so doing, students will embrace the face of global Christianity in the church and in their everyday lives.
This course provides practice, tools, and resources for interpreting the Gospel of Mark. The course not only explores the socio-historical background, literary characteristics, and theological ideas of Mark, but also engages with its interpretations, from the earliest interpretations of Mark (found in Matthew and Luke) to traditional Western interpretations, and to more recent ones providing diverse interpretive perspectives on Mark. It introduces students to consideration of theological and hermeneutical issues, as well as to discussions of exegetical questions and interpretive approaches. The course promotes students’ ability to simultaneously engage the Gospel text, the context that produced the text, and the contemporary context including our faith community and culture, through the practice of interpretation.
This course is designed for students to engage the text of the Gospel of Matthew and its interpretations as a community of interpreters. The course explores Matthew’s religious and social contexts, literary characteristics, theological ideas, and ideological assumptions. It not only introduces students to a variety of ways of interpreting the Gospel and hermeneutical perspectives but also promotes their own exegetical skills and interpretive strategies. Furthermore, students will search for theological and hermeneutical implications of interpretation for their ministry settings.
Paul’s letter to the Romans has traditionally been read as a compendium of Paul’s theology or Christian doctrine. Recent Pauline scholarship, however, has argued that the letter should be interpreted in Paul’s own Jewish and in the Roman imperial context. Situating Romans in its historical and social context, this course seeks to interpret the text as a whole and in the broader context of Paul’s thought and experience presented in his other letters. Also, this course promotes students’ ability to interpret Romans as well as their understanding of the early Christian communities that Paul built or engaged. Furthermore, the course examines how Romans has impacted churches and cultures through its interpretations. Finally, students will reflect on the theological and practical implications of interpretations of Romans.
Traditional interpretation of Paul has focused on the theological themes of individual sin and salvation and justification by faith. This dominant view of Paul is not apolitical in effect as it brought anti-Judaism to the core of Protestant theology by understanding Paul as against Judaism and its law. Taking into account political dimensions of the texts and of interpretation of Paul’s letters, this course intends to read Paul’s letters in his own contexts in which he communicated with local communities of Jesus-followers—both Second Temple Judaism and the Roman Empire. As a diaspora Jew in the Roman imperial context, Paul’s politics will be discussed in terms of empire, economy, church, body, and identity. Equipped with critical approaches to studying Paul’s letters, students will be encouraged to engage and reflect on politics not only in and of the text but also its interpretation, which has impacted the lives of people and churches today.
The prophetic corpus is the largest in the Bible as a whole and in many ways the trickiest. Despite attempts to domesticate it—by means of proof texting; allegorizing; and cooption for a single cause—this dense collision of attitudes and genres has effectively resisted all reductions of any kind; readers must proceed with care. But each generation, equipped with new approaches shaped by the questions and concerns of the day, takes up the challenge. In this class, then, we will read through the prophets in the company of writers and scholars who honor that challenge; under their guidance we will practice courageous exegesis in order to encounter an ancient word again.
Genesis, Isaiah, and Other Selected Texts A study of creation stories from the ancient world with special attention on those in the Old Testament. While the course is primarily exegetical— engaged in close reading of the Biblical text—there will also be time for comparative, cultural, and theological reflection. 21 course Instructor Dr. Jin Young Choi Dr. Jin Young Choi
An exegetical study and study of exegesis, this course will not only study three texts from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, but also the reading strategies used to interpret them. As we read, we will take into account such things as narration, plot, characterization, and style, observing, too, the representation (and production) of ideologies relating to national and sexual identities.
An exegetical study taking into account the historical contexts of the Book of Jeremiah, theories of the book’s formation, and the history of its reception, whilst using a variety of interpretative approaches to negotiate this most tricky of biblical texts.
During the last two decades there has been a shift from the “historical- critical” methods that had previously dominated biblical criticism, to a sometimes bewildering variety of theoretical approaches to the text. This course will engage in a critical investigation of a number of such approaches, always with a view to aid creative, if not audacious, interpretation of the Bible. CS MS 310 Feminist Biblical Interpretation This course explores the developments, approaches, and topics of feminist/ womanist biblical criticisms. The course examines not only biblical texts that have been used to oppress or liberate women but also a collection of both critical interpretations of the Bible and hermeneutical models as proposed by feminist biblical scholars from around the world. In this class, students will learn to appreciate diverse women’s reading strategies, the role of their social locations, and the significance of their ideological agendas in interpreting biblical texts. Moreover, through such critical engagement with the text, interpretations, and interpreters, students will develop their own perspectives and practices of feminist biblical interpretation. Since the class will be conducted as a seminar, all participants will share an equal responsibility in the learning process and be in charge of starting discussion sessions and making individual presentations throughout the semester.
From Genesis through to the Prophets, the Old Testament presents YHWH as warrior (Ex 15:3). We shall examine this representation in its mythological and historical contexts, trace how it guides the business of theology both within and without the Bible, then place our findings alongside present day issues and concerns.
This will be a course in Bible and culture focusing specifically on the medium of movies and movie-making. Not simply an examination of screen representations of biblical stories, we shall at times juxtapose the biblical text with some surprising—even unlikely— cinematic choices. Under scrutiny, therefore, will be cultural self-representation and the part and place of the Bible in that.
Prophetic literature inspires and challenges societies both ancient and modern. This course is an in-depth exegetical analysis of Israel’s 8th century prophets with an emphasis on their historical and social location, as well as an exploration of current scholarly trends in reading prophetic literature.
Source: Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
