Kurs

Patristic Exegesis, Distance Education

The course offers an in-depth study of biblical interpretation in patristic times. The student learns to account for differences and similarities in primary sources, to analyze them in light of their historical contexts and functions ,and to identify the questions the material aims to answer. The course also provides theoretical tools for understanding the patristic endeavor in terms of modern hermeneutics as well as philological and literary critical methods. In addition to classical patristic sources, the student is provided with examples relating to women, the use of the bible in genres such as hagiography (i.e. rewritings), and the medieval reception of patristic texts in various Orthodox Christian languages.

At the end of the course, the student is expected to be able to:
Knowledge and understanding:
– Describe major hermeneutical theories in a thorough manner

Competence and skills:
– Idependently illustrate different interpretational stategies in patristic soures with concrete examples
– Independently employ theories and methods on a selected material

Judgement and apporach
– evaluate implications of the choice of theories and methods in scholarly approaches to the bible
– argue for an interpretation in relation to the function, genre, or audience of a text

Reservation för revidering av litteraturen.

Behr, John (ed. and trans) Origen, On First Principles, A Reader’s Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 (100 pages)

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Song and Memory: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition. Marquette University Press, 2010 (92 pages)

Hill, Robert C. Reading the Old Testament in Antioch. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2010 [originally published: Leiden: Brill, 2005] (201 pages).

Young, Francis. Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 [1997] (299 pages).

Scholarly Articles: 200 pages (provided by the teacher), including:

  1. Lung.pun Common Chan. 2017. “Rahab as harlot and Prophetess in 1 Clement: Fate of a Biblical Prostitute in the Wirkungsgeschichte,” in Agnethe Siquans (ed.), Biblical Women in Patristic Reception (V&R,), 49-71
  2. Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, “Hermeneutics” The Routledge Handobok of Reserach Methods in the Study of Religion (2014), pp 275-282
  3. Gabor Buzasi. 2021. “Julian the Apostate as a Biblical Literalist,” in Reinhart Ceulemans and Barbara Crostini (eds), Reception of the Bible in Byzantium (2021), pp 41-62
  4. Susan Gillingham, “Jewish and Christian Approaches to Suffering in the Reception of Psalm 137,” OTE 32/2 (2019): 444-463.
  5. Brennan Breed. 2015. “What Can a Text Do? Reception History as an Ethology of the Biblical Text,” in England, Emma & William, John Lyon (eds.). Reception History and Biblical Studies, Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury: T&T Clark.

Primary sources: 100 pages (provided by the teacher)

Kurslitteraturen reviderades senast 8 maj 2024.

Schemat finns tillgängligt senast en månad innan kursen startar. Vi rekommenderar inte att du skriver ut schemat eftersom vissa ändringar kan ske.

Öppna schemat

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A = Framstående, B = Mycket bra, C = Bra, D = Tillfredsställande, E = Tillräcklig, Fx = Otillräcklig, komplettering möjlig, F = Otillräcklig

Examinationsformer

  • Muntlig redovisning
  • PM
  • Skriftliga inlämningsuppgifter

60 credits in Theology, including 30 credits from Introductory courses, and the courses Text, Context and Interpretation of life 15 credits, and History of Eastern Christianity (Intermediate level) 7,5 credits or equivalent.

Alternatively: 60 credits in Theology: Theology, introductory courses, 30 credits, the courses Text, kontext och livstolkning/Text, Context and Interpretation of life 15 credits and Teologi, religion och kyrka i Sverige/Theology, Religion and Churches in Sweden 15 hp, or eqvivalent.

Fastställd av Ämnesföreträdarkollegiet vid Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm den 7 februari 2024.

Senast reviderad den 8 maj 2024.