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RELIGIONS OF THE WEST:

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM

 

Course Outline

 Tuesday, May 18, 1999

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Genesis - X-files clip

Reading selections from scriptures

Assignment for Thursday, May 20, 1999

Get the books; read the following in your TaNaKh, reading like a novel, for story and content

 

Thursday, May 20, 1999

Open-book quiz

Discussion of Readings

Mini-lecture

If possible, taped discussion from Bill Moyers' Genesis (PBS program) about the Binding of Isaac (The Akedah).

Alternate time, Monday, May 26, 1999 at 6 PM.

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, May 27, 1999, read quickly, like a novel

All of New Testament Gospel of Matthew

Gospel of Luke 1-3

Gospel of John 1-3

Epistle to the Romans

Corrigan Text, Preface (ix-xvi) and pp. 1-50

 

Tuesday, May 27, 1999

Open-book quiz

Discussion of Readings

Mini-lecture

Dramatization of Paul's life - video

Web assignment, handouts for Thursday, May 29th

 

Thursday, May 29, 1999

The role of scripture in modern traditions

The development of scripture

The problems of scripture

 

NOTE: The classes as conducted the last week of May were approximately the reverse of the above list of topics.

For the first week in June, read the following Suras in Al-Qur`an as well as the indicated pages of the two books edited by Corrigan et.al.

Al-Qur'an
  • Sura XIV - Abraham 217- 222

  • Sura XII - Joseph 200- 210

  • Sura XIX - Mary 261- 265

  • Sura III - Family of Imran 51- 72

  • Sura XC - The Earth 537

  • Sura XV - El Hijr 223- 227

  • Corrigan, et. al. TEXTBOOK 39- 86

  • Corrigan, et. al. READINGS 32- 71

    Tuesday, June 1, 1999

    Open book quiz

    Readings in Qur'an,

    relationship to "prior text",

    the HB/OT in Judaism and Christianity from the turn of the era through the rise of Islam

    (Wisdom, Oral Torah, Patristic Theology)

    Thursday, June 3, 1999

    • The beginning of Islam
    • Readings in the Qur'an, more of the film on Islam
    Maps and timeline will be important

    • WEEK OF JUNE 7-11

    Maps and timeline continue to be important tools     Read the following:
    • Corrigan, Jaffee, Eire, Denny TEXTBOOK pages 75-210
    • Corrigan, Denny, Eire, Jaffee READINGS pages 87-155

    For each pericope of the readings record--or make a chart--the genre, and whether as a source it can be described as scriptures, or commentary, or devotional, or legal, or concilar, or something else. Record whether you think it successfully illustrates a necessary point.

    Tuesday, June 8, 1999

    • Quiz on all of the Textbook reading
    • Hand in copy of chart on the pericopes from the Readings
    • More of The Story of Islam
    • Monotheism -- The readings

    Thursday, June 10, 1999

    • Authority and Community - Outline, emphases
    • Groundhog Day
    • Autobiography of Malcolm X - selected scenes
    • Introduction to READINGS on Authority and Community