Introduction to Biblical Literature

<body stylesrc="temp.html" background="TNK.jpg" bgproperties="fixed" link="#800000"> <h1 align="center"><font color="#800000"><b><u>INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL LITERATURE</u></b></font></h1> <h1 align="center"><font color="#101687">Hebrew Studies 341/Jewish Studies 341</font></h1> <h1 align="center"><font color="#101687">Religious Studies 341/Lit Trans 341</font></h1> <h1 align="center"><font color="#101687">Ronald L. Troxel, Ph.D.</font></h1> <h3 align="left"><strong>The Bible has profoundly influenced the thinking of western culture. The standards of its legal codes, its prophets demand for just treatment of the vulnerable, its visions of a coming ideal age, its questions about unjust suffering, and many other themes expounded and explored in the Hebrew Bible have become part of the intellectual heritage of western thought, alongside ideas we have inherited from other ancient societies, such as the Greeks and the Romans.</strong></h3> <h3 align="left"><strong>This course explores both the content and origins of this body of literature. While the Bible has been transmitted, cherished and devotedly read by religious communities, this course will deal with the Bible as a literary text. Specifically, it will explore the questions of what sort of historical and cultural environments produced the Bible, how its books came to be written, and how the authors contemporaries would have understood their writings.</strong></h3> <h3 align="left"><strong>For a multimedia summary of the course, see the promotional presentation. For a written summary of the course contents, see the </strong><a href="course.html"><strong>course description</strong></a><strong>. Other options are displayed below.</strong></h3> <p> </p> <h6 align="center"><a href="tableof.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong>Contents</strong></font></a><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong> | </strong></font><a href="what.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong>What's New</strong></font></a><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong> | </strong></font><a href="guestboo.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong>Guest Book</strong></font></a><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong> | </strong></font><a href="course.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong><u>Description</u></strong></font></a></h6> <h6 align="center"><a href="Schedule98HTM.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong>Schedule</strong></font></a><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong> | </strong></font><a href="glossary.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong><u>Glossary</u></strong></font></a><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong> | </strong></font><a href="text.html"><font color="#5B3D23" size="4"><strong><u>Search</u></strong></font></a></h6> <p align="left"> </p> <h4 align="left">Dr. Ronald L. Troxel, Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies<br> Copyright © 1998 by Ronald L. Troxel. All rights reserved.<br> Revised: ,( Jan /),( ,(:,(:,( -0400.</h4>  </body>