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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: BA3008L (Approved)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3

Unit discipline: Old Testament

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
5.	Articulate a key theological message of a pericope in the Prophets and defend and demonstrate it through rigorous exegetical analysis

Unit sequence

A level 3 unit in undergraduate theology and ministry courses

Prerequisites: At least 18 points in the discipline of Old Testament

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

Brown, Francis, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English lexicon: with an appendix containing the biblical Aramaic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson,1996.
Brueggemann, Walter. The prophetic imagination. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2001.
Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1990.
Goldingay, John. The message of Isaiah 40–55: A literary and theological commentary. New York: T&T Clark, 2005.
Lessing, R. Reed. Isaiah 56–66. Concordia Commentary Series. St Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2014.
———. Isaiah 40–55. Concordia Commentary Series. St Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011.
Lessing, R. Reed, and Andrew E. Steinmann. Prepare the way of the Lord: an introduction to the Old Testament. St Louis, MO: Concordia, 2014.
Seitz, Christopher R. Isaiah 1-39. Interpretation: a Bible commentary for teaching and preaching. Louisville, KY: John Knox Press, 1993.
Wigram, George V. The Englishman's Hebrew concordance of the Old Testament: coded with Strong's concordance numbers. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson,1995. (or equivalent Concordance resource)
Williams, Roland J. Williams’ Hebrew syntax. 3rd ed. Revised and expanded by John C. Beckman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Essay	Essay (including tutorial paper) on a prophetic theme	1500	40.0
Exegetical Essay	Exegetical essay on a pericope from the Prophets	3500	60.0

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Maggie Kappelhoff on 4 Sep, 2020

Unit record last updated: 2020-10-15 11:37:51 +1100