Religion 215 - INTRO TO THE BIBLE II
Spring
2013
01
4.00
Margaret Butterfield
WF 01:10-02:30
Smith College
38896-S13
FORD 015
mbutterfield@smith.edu
An introduction to the New Testament and its many genres (Gospel, Parable, Epistle, Apocalypse), its ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts, and to an array of modern methods (historical criticism, sociological and ideological analysis, feminist approaches) for studying perhaps the most influential set of books in the Western world. Enrollment limited to 35.