This unit will consider selected themes and texts from the Pentateuch, including: issues of authorship and audience, society, geography, theology, genre, literary devices, major themes, and contemporary application issues.
Unit code: BA2006L
Unit status: Archived (New unit)
Points: 18.0
Unit level: Undergraduate Level 2
Unit discipline: Old Testament
Delivery Mode: Face to Face
Proposing College: Australian Lutheran College
Show when this unit is running| 1. | Analyse, assess, and engage with scholarly debates over understanding the books of the Pentateuch |
| 2. | Identify and articulate major theological themes running through the books of the Pentateuch and throughout the Bible |
| 3. | Use primary and secondary resources to research, document and write an exegesis of Pentateuchal texts, giving due weight to historical, literary, and theological concerns |
| 4. | Identify different interpretations of texts and present apt and significant contemporary applications based on the analysis of these texts and interpretations |
Bible Introduction 1 or equivalent Hebrew 1 and 2 are desirable but not essential.
Lectures, tutorials, class presentations
Lessing, R. Reed, and Andrew E. Steinmann. 2014. Prepare the way of the Lord: an introduction to the Old Testament. St Louis, MO: Concordia. (recommended for purchase)
Highly recommended texts (required for students in the School of Pastoral Theology) Grammars/language resources
Either
Brown, Francis, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs. 1996. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. Or
Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner. 1994-2000. The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated by M. E. J. Richardson. Leiden: Brill.
Van Pelt, Miles V., and Gary D. Pratico. 2006. Graded reader of Biblical Hebrew: a guide to reading the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
Wigram, George V. 1995. The Englishman's Hebrew concordance of the Old Testament: coded with Strong's concordance numbers. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.
Williams, Roland J. 2007. Williams’ Hebrew syntax. 3rd ed: Revised and expanded by John C. Beckman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Other resources
Alexander, T. Desmond. 2012. From paradise to the promised land: an introduction to the Pentateuch. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. (eBook available)
Blenkinsopp, Joseph. 1992. The Pentateuch: an introduction to the first five books of the Bible. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York, NY: Doubleday.
Brueggemann, Walter. 1982. Genesis. Interpretation. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press.
———. 1994. ‘The book of Exodus’. In The New Interpreter’s Bible, volume 1. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
Fretheim, Terence E. 1991. Exodus. Interpretation. Louisville, KY: John Knox Press.
———. 1994. ‘The book of Genesis’. In The New Interpreter’s Bible, volume 1. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
Kleinig, John W. 2003. Leviticus. Concordia Commentary Series. St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
Moberly, R. W. L. 1983. At the mountain of God: story and theology in Exodus 32-34. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
Wenham, Gordon J. 1987. Genesis 1-15. Word Biblical Commentary, volume 1. Waco, TX: Word Books.
———. 1994. Genesis 16-50. Word Biblical Commentary, volume 2. Dallas, TX: Word.
| Type | Description | Word count | Weight (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exegesis | Exegetical essay on a selected text from the Pentateuch. 3000 words |
0 | 67.0 |
| Essay | Minor essay on a selected Pentateuchal text 1000 words |
0 | 22.0 |
| Oral Presentation | Presentation of a selected Pentateuchal text 500 word equivalent |
0 | 11.0 |
Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 1 Nov, 2017
Unit record last updated: 2019-10-03 11:34:42 +1000