Religion 211 - What Is the Good Life?
Wisdom From the Bible
Fall
2025
01
4.00
Joel S. Kaminsky
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Smith College
REL-211-01-202601
Wright 238
jkaminsk@smith.edu
How do you go about acquiring wisdom and leading a meaningful life? The Bible and related ancient texts have long inspired religious, philosophical and artistic answers to these questions. In this course, students explore how moral and ethical ideas expressed in wisdom literature such as Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, love poetry in the Song of Songs, and narratives such as Ruth, Esther and Tobit may inform our lives today.