PHRE 210 - Introduction to the Bible

This course is an academic introduction to the Bible as literature, narrative, philosophy, history, a source for ethics, and one of the foundations of the shared ideas of Western culture, as well as a primary basis of much of the world’s stock of stories, ideas, and images. It has influenced and shaped politics, society, philosophy, ethics, and the arts, both within and outside of the Jewish and Christian traditions that produced them. Students will consider the contexts, genres, and cultural significance of the books of the Jewish Scriptures, Old Testament, and the Christian New Testament and engage the methods, theories, and conclusions of biblical scholarship to understand the Bible as collection of human responses grounded in the existential and historical challenges of life.

Credit(s): 3
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Arts & Humanities Perspectives course for the Dialogues.