Status
C
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
How To Read the Bible
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC153401
Course number integer
153
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Benjamin Franklin Seminars
Benjamin Franklin Seminars
Meeting times
TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Steven Phillip Weitzman
Description
The aim of this course is to explore what the Bible means, and why it means such different things to different people. Why do people find different kinds of meaning in the Bible. Who is right in the struggle over its meaning, and how does one go about deciphering that meaning in the first place? Focusing on the book of Genesis, this seminar seeks to help students answer these questions by introducing some of the many ways in which the Bible has been read over the ages. exploring its meaning as understood by ancient Jews and Christians, modern secular scholars, contemporary fiction writers, feminist activists, philosophers and other kinds of interpreter.
Course number only
153
Cross listings
RELS130401, JWST131401
Use local description
No