Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Qoheleth

3 Credits.

This course aims to increase students’ proficiency in Biblical Hebrew by reading the entire book of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) in Hebrew. In addition, students will practice the art of critical exegesis including grammatical analysis and textual criticism. They will interact with various aspects of interpretation for this representation of Hebraic wisdom literature (e.g., philology, text history, structure, literary history, message, poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, theology, ancient Near Eastern comparanda).