Religion 215 - INTRO TO THE BIBLE II
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Lowell Brand
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
30697-S18
SEELYE 311
sbrand@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.