Overview
Description
Readings from the Old and New Testaments studied in literary, historical, and cultural contexts.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO12, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate evidence and arguments from popular sources and current reports that use information and quotations from the Bible to support claims and proposals.
- integrate historical biblical understandings of law, justice, sin, responsibility, and freedom with contemporary ethical theory, demonstrating a significant familiarity with the tools and concerns of the study of ethics.
- compose essays about biblical texts using critical approaches appropriate for academic disciplines and not reliant on doctrinaire religious suppositions.
- in discussion or in writing, demonstrate understanding of the variety of interpretive strategies that have shaped the history of the use of the Bible and of its formation.
- explain the importance of biblical texts in creating and maintaining identity groups and defining cultural relations.