Interpretive Methods: Bible

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course will provide an overview of the scholarly methods developed over the past 200 years for reading and interpreting the Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament. The methods to be examined will include source, form, social-scientific, post-modern, gender, literary, and ideological criticisms. By developing facility with these criticisms, students will be prepared to apply these methods to other sacred texts, ancient and modern.