Jesus' Suffering and Ours: The Gospel Stories of Jesus' Passion, Death and Resurrection (BN3100C)

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This unit studies the four Gospel accounts of Jesus' suffering, death and resurrection. A close exegetical study of these stories, climactic to each of the Gospels, and an appreciation of the literary power of the narratives, will reveal the theological meaning intended by the evangelists as they sought to offer an understanding for their first century CE audiences about the most important human event - death. The unit will also explore the contemporary implications of these narratives for our own experience of suffering and death and our hoped for resurrection

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

BN2100C BS1001C and BS1002C or equivalent

BN3300C
Two Biblical Studies units at second level

Pedagogy

Lecture and Seminar

Indicative Bibliography

• Brown, Raymond. The Death of the Messiah. Two Volumes. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
• Clark Wire, Antoinette. The Case for Mark Composed in Performance. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2011.
• Fehribach, Adeline. ‘The “Birthing” Bridegroom: The Portrayal of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel’. A Feminist Companion to John. Volume 2. A-J. Levine, et al., editors, 104-129. London/New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
• Moloney, Francis J. The Resurrection of the Messiah. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2013.
• Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth. I Am My Body: A Theology of Embodiment. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 1995.
• Senior, Donald. Passion Series. Four Volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Glazier, 1984–1991.
• Trainor, Michael. The Body of Jesus and Sexual Abuse—How the Gospel Passion Narratives inform a Pastoral Response. Melbourne: Mosaic Press, 2014. (recommended for purchase)
  

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