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RLST/DIV 3830
Methods in New Testament Criticism
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Description
This advanced seminar
for Ph.D. Candidates in biblical studies (open to other students with permission
of the instructor) will include:
a) a review
of a broad range of critical methods presently used in New Testament analysis--including
textual, source, form, redaction, literary, sociological, anthropological,
structural, political, cultural, reader-response criticisms. It is expected
that the members of the seminar already know most of these methods; the
goal of this review is to explore how these different methods are interrelated.
b) a parallel exploration
of different paradigms which have served, serve, or might serve to integrate
this plurality of methods in a practice of critical biblical studies–including
historical paradigms, literary semiotic paradigms, feminist paradigms,
post-colonialist paradigms, postmodern cross-disciplinary paradigms, and
pedagogical/pragmatic paradigms (including Scriptural Criticism).
Once again, it is expected that the members of the seminar already know
several of these paradigms. The question is: what are the different
ways in which they can be interrelated?
c) an on-going reflection
on the ethical issues involved in the choice of a primary paradigm through
an examination of the conception and practice of critical reading over
time.