Content

This unit will engage selected books from the Prophets, exploring issues of audience and background, canonical context, theology, genre, literary devices, major themes, and pastoral/contemporary application.

Unit code: BA2008L

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

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Learning outcomes

1.

integrate advanced skills in the interpretation of biblical texts; for students with Hebrew this includes but is not limited to an ability to function readily with the Hebrew language

2.

identify the forms of prophetic literature and their distinctive features

3.

Describe in some detail the setting which selected prophets addressed, their central messages, canonical significance and New Testament trajectories, and the relevance of their prophetic ministry for church and world today

4.

Offer a detailed exegetical analysis of prophetic texts, giving due weight to historical, literary, theological, and pastoral/applicatory concerns

Unit sequence

Level 3: At least 36 points in Field B—Old Testament (BA) Level 2: At least 18 points in Field B—Old Testament (BA) Hebrew 1 and 2 are desirable but not essential

Pedagogy

This unit employs both flipped classroom approaches and interactive lecture as appropriate, including seminar-style discussion of guided readings, student and instructor-led group analysis of texts, and student presentations.

Indicative Bibliography

  • Required for all students
  • Lessing, R. Reed, and Andrew E. Steinmann. 2014. Prepare the way of the Lord: an introduction to the Old Testament. St Louis, MO: Concordia.

  • Required for students with Hebrew

  • 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.

  • Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. 1990. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.

  • Wigram, George V. 1995. The Englishman's Hebrew concordance of the Old Testament: coded with Strong's concordance numbers. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. (or equivalent Concordance resource)

  • Williams, Roland J. 2007. Williams’ Hebrew syntax. 3rd ed. Revised and expanded by John C. Beckman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

  • Other resources

  • Brueggemann, Walter. 2001. The prophetic imagination. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress.

  • Goldingay, John. 2005. The message of Isaiah 40–55: A literary and theological commentary*. New York: T&T Clark.

  • Lessing, R. Reed. 2014. Isaiah 56–66. Concordia Commentary Series. St Louis: Concordia Publishing House.

  • ———. 2011. Isaiah 40–55. Concordia Commentary Series. St Louis: Concordia Publishing House.

  • Seitz, Christopher R. 1993. Isaiah 1-39. Interpretation: a Bible commentary for teaching and preaching. Louisville, KY: John Knox Press.

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Exegesis

Exegetical essay—Category A (Hebrew) Exegetical essay—Category B (non Hebrew) 3000 words

0 60.0
Essay

Essay on a prophetic theme 1500 words

0 20.0
Seminar or Tutorial

Seminar on a prophetic theme 10‒20 minutes

0 20.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 18 Oct, 2018

Unit record last updated: 2019-10-03 11:34:37 +1000