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HEBR 201, HEBR 202

Taught on two year cycle: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew I & II, Readings in Biblical Hebrew I & II. This is year one. Students start with the AlephBet and simple verbs and nouns, and progress to more complex syntax.

RLGS 101

Old Testament Scripture. This survey provides an orientation to the basic shape of the Torah, Prophets and Writings, and to matters of canon, text, criticism, interpretation, background and religious context.

RLGS 311

The Ten Commandments (Text & Interpretation). A departure from the usual T&I format, this course offers a detailed historical, theological and hermeneutical look at one of the most famous texts in the Bible.

RLGS 449

Creation and the Old Testament (Biblical Theological Themes). While laying emphasis on Old Testament contexts, this seminar also covers broader historical and theological dimensions of a core Christian doctrine.

Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian (2010, 2012)

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Baker Academic, 2012

Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian: For the Church’s One Bible

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012.

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Brevard Childs (1923–2007), one of the monumental figures in biblical interpretation in the last half-century, is a founding presence in the current resurgence in theological interpretation of Scripture. He combined critique of biblical scholarship with a constructive proposal related to canon. Because his work is influential, complex, and contested, it needs and merits clarification. In this full-scale explication of Childs’s thought, Daniel Driver takes account of the complete corpus of Childs’s work, providing a thorough introduction to the context, content, and reception of his canonical approach. Originally published by Mohr Siebeck, this affordable North American paperback edition adds an appendix giving English translations of the numerous German extracts in the book.