This course helps students to critically and imaginatively engage the richness and the challenges of the literature known to Christians as the Old Testament, to Jews as the Tanakh, and to interfaith and academic interpreters as the Hebrew Bible. It develops students’ abilities to interpret individual passages and the collection as a whole in ways that take seriously at least four dimensions of interpreting the Old Testament:
• Its content
• Key scholarly conversations about its orgins and character
• The diverse ways in which it is interpreted
• The ethical implications of interpretation
• Its content
• Key scholarly conversations about its orgins and character
• The diverse ways in which it is interpreted
• The ethical implications of interpretation