Religious Studies 2500--Introduction

Instructor: 

Professor Nathan Hofer

Email:  hofern@missouri.edu

Office Hours:  Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am--11:30 am in 221B Arts and Sciences Building

Full syllabus is available on Blackboard.

Introduction, pgs 1-20

assigned Day 2

Topics:

1. Different Canons
1. Apocrypha
2. Why three cannons?
2. The Text of the Bible
1. discoveries
2. translations
3. The Bible and History
1. biblical chronology
2. historical context/discrepancies
4. Methods in Biblical Study
1. Types
1. "composite artistry"
2. "literary criticism"
3. "form criticism"
4. "redaction criticism"
5. New Criticism and Old Historicism
2. Comparative models
3. Sociological methods
4.