Old Testament Exegesis I (narrative literature)

ltheo2211  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Old Testament Exegesis I (narrative literature)
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
4 credits
30.0 h
Q1

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Luciani Didier; SOMEBODY;
Language
French
Main themes
In order to achieve this end,
- some significant text from Old Testament narrative literature will be studied, with an explanation of the exegetical method and an illustration of the interest of exegetical basic tools;
- some scientific literature about the texts will be read;
- anthropological and theological aspects of the analysed texts will be developed, and their particular contribution in the context of biblical thought enlightened.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 - understand the main procedures of biblical exegesis and apply them on a narrative text of the Old Testament ;
 
2 - situate the anthropological and theological contribution of significant texts of the Old Testament narrative literature ;
 
3 - understand and criticise scientific works in Old Testament exegesis.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Evaluation methods
 
Bibliography
Les étudiant(e)s qui souhaitent élargir leur approche de la méthode trouveront de quoi le faire avec les quelques ouvrages que voici :
Shimon Bar-Efrat, Narrative Art in the Hebrew Bible, Sheffield, 1989 (original hébreu 1979).
Robert Alter, L'art du récit biblique (Le livre et le rouleau 4), Bruxelles, 1999 (original anglais 1981).
Yairah Amit, Reading Biblical Narratives. Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible, Minneapolis, 2001.
Jan P. Fokkelman, Comment lire le récit biblique. Une introduction pratique (Le livre et le rouleau 13), Bruxelles, 2002 (original néerlandais 1995).
Faculty or entity
TEBI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies

Master [120] in Biblical Studies

Master [60] in Ancient Languages and Literatures : Oriental Studies

Master [120] in Theology

Master [60] in Theology

Master [120] in Sciences of Religions