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Instructors: Dr. Kenneth Brown
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Proseminar AT
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Requirements / organisational issues:
Prerequisite: Hebraicum
Lectures and class discussions will take place primarily in German, but students are welcome to ask questions or present their own ideas in English as well.
Contents:
The goal of this Proseminar is to practice the methods of academic study of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, with a special focus on the Book of Job. Job’s unique combination of a prose framing story and a poetic dialogue – both of which draw heavily on earlier biblical literature from a wide range of genres – will be used to introduce students to various interpretive issues relating to different types of biblical literature, and to explore the substantive (and subversive) questions Job raises about the nature of God’s relation to humanity. In fact, Job offers a model for the entire Hebrew Bible, which is much better understood as a narratively-framed dialogue than as a unified textbook.
Recommended reading list:
Uwe Becker, Exegese des Alten Testaments: Ein Methoden- und Arbeitsbuch (4th ed.; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015). [this should be purchased]
Carol Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). available in the Semesterapparat, and digitally through the university library: https:/hds.hebis.de/ubmz/Record/HEB364257792 ]
Elliger and W. Rudolph (eds.), Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed.; Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997). [in the protestant library: db 43]
A scholarly translation of the Bible, in German or English (e.g., the Zürcher Bibel or the New Revised Standard Version), with Apokrypha.
A good Hebrew lexicon: Gesenius, KAHAL, HALOT or DCH [all in the catholic library: at c1a]
For further bibliography, see Becker, Exegese des Alten Testaments, 166-217.
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