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Class
meets Mondays 3-5 p.m. at Garland 301F
M-Sept. 4. Introduction.
Choosing the texts.
M-Sept. 11 Method: Miller,
“Reading the Bible Historically,” 17--32; Viviano, “Source Criticism,”
35--57 in To Each Its Own Meaning. Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Van A.
Harvey, The Historian and the Believer : The Morality of Historical Knowledge
and Christian Belief Reporter: ________________
M-Sept. 18 Daniel Marguerat,
exceptionally the seminar meets from 2 – 4 (a joint session with the Acts
seminar; also an open Graduate Colloquium "Historical Reading and/or
Narrative Reading. Acts as a Testcase." Also lecture
at 4:30 "God, a Murderer ? The case of Ananias et Saphira (Acts
5,1-11). Narrative Theology and History"
Methodology: Daniel MARGUERAT,
The First Christian Historian, chapter 1, “How Luke Wrote History” (duplicated
material)
M-Sept. 25 Method: Sweeney,
“Form Criticism,” 58 – 89; Di Vito, “Tradition Historical Criticism,” 90
– 104, in To Each its Own Meaning. Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Vernon K. Robbins,
Exploring the Texture of Texts : A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation
Reporter: ________________
M-Oct. 2 Method: Streete,
“Redaction Criticism,”105-121 in To Each its Own Meaning.
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Mieke
Bal, Murder and difference : gender, genre, and scholarship on Sisera's
death
Reporter: ________________
M-Oct. 9 Method: Martin,
“Social Scientific Criticism,” 125 – 141 in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Brian
K. Blount, Cultural Interpretation : Reorienting New Testament Criticism
Reporter: ________________
M-Oct. 16 Method: Patte,
“Structural Criticism,” 183ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Daniel
Patte, The Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts : Greimas's Structural
Semiotics and Biblical Exegesis
Reporter: ________________
M-Oct. 23 Method: Beardsley,
“Poststructuralist Criticism,” 253ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: George
Aichele, et al editors The Postmodern Bible : The Bible and Culture Collective
Reporter: ________________
M-Oct. 30 Method:
Callaway, “Canonical criticism,” 142 – 155 in to Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Elisabeth Schussler-Fiorenza
(Editor), Searching the Scriptures : A Feminist Introduction (suggested:
Emily Cheney, She Can Read : Feminist Reading Strategies for Biblical Narrative)
Reporter: ________________
M-Nov. 6 Method: Gunn, “Narrative
Criticism,” 201ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology:
R. S. Sugirtharajah (Editor), The Postcolonial Bible and Gerald O. West,
The Academy of the Poor : Towards a Dialogical Reading of the Bible
Reporter: ________________
M-Nov. 13 Method: McKnight,“Reader
Response Criticism,”230ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Cristina Grenholm
and Daniel Patte (Editors) Reading Israel in Romans : Legitimacy and Plausibility
of Divergent Interpretations
Reporter: ________________
M-Nov. 27 Method: Tull, “Rhetorical
Criticism and Intertextuality,” 156ff. in To Each
its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Daniel Patte,
Ethics of Biblical Interpretation : A Reevaluation
Reporter: ________________
M-Dec. 4 Method: Nolan Fewell,
“Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism,” 268ff
in To Each its Own Meaning Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Elisabeth Schüssler
Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic : the Politics of Biblical Studies.
Reporter: ________________
M-Dec. 11 Method:
Segovia, “Reading the Bible Ideologically: Socioeconomic Criticism,” 283ff
in To Each its Own Meaning
Reporter: ________________
Methodology: Emmanuel
Levinas, Richard A. Cohen New Talmudic Readings and Roger Burggraeve, “The
Bible Gives to Thought : Lévinas on the Possibility and
Proper Nature of Biblical Thinking.”
Reporter: ________________
RESEARCH PAPER DUE on December 18.