HIST 6/454 Intertestamental Literature

Lectures: Tuesdays at 11:00am - 1:30pm Eastern Time

Credit Hours: 3

Cost: $540 Audit; $2,085 Credit

Recorded Lectures: No

Description

This course will focus on Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and their contribution to our knowledge of the varieties of religious thought in the Second Temple Period.

Objectives

By the end of the course, a student should be able to:

• identify and describe the various genres of Intertestamental literature;
• place epigraphic sources from the Intertestamental Period into their proper historical, cultural, and religious contexts;
• explain historical, cultural, and religious issues of the Intertestamental Period through the epigraphic sources of the time; and 
• explain ways that literature from the Intertestamental Period provides context for the New Testament.

Equivalencies

• History
• Jewish Studies
• Bible

Instructor

Dr. Adolfo Roitman: M.A., University of Buenos Aires; M.A., Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ordained rabbi. Curator and Director, The Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum. Published author. Began teaching at JUC in 2017.