Course descriptions of new courses (NT 571/871 and OT 561/861): please see Course Descriptions below.
Textbook information: the WTS Bookstore lists required textbooks for each course on its Textbooks webpages at wtsbooks.com as soon as the professor makes this list available. The list is intended as a guide only. When the list is finalized for Fall 2011, the status will be updated. Inquiries about the status of a particular course's required textbook list should be directed to info@wtsbooks.com.
Summer course book lists at wtsbooks.com
OT 011 Hebrew Lab: Each student who registers for either OT 011 S1 or OT 011 S2 needs to also register for one of the Friday OT 011 Labs (S1LAB, S2LAB, S3LAB, or S4LAB)
Distance Education courses offered: PTC 151 and PTC 261 (see course schedule below). For more information or any questions about purchasing course packet materials for these courses, please email: student.services@ccef.org
First day of classes: Sept. 8, 2011
Last day of classes: Dec. 2, 2011
M.Div./M.A./M.A.R./Cert/Special | Updated as of September 20th,2011 |
Th.M/Ph.D. | Updated as of August 25th,2011 |
Course Descriptions of new courses:
NT 571/871 Exegesis ofJames
Purpose:
- To interpret James in its original, redemptive-historical, and canonical context
- To read (and understand) the Greek of James
- To appreciate how James uniquely contributes to our understanding of the early church, the New Covenant, and the Christian life.
Topics covered include prolegomena (especially genre and social setting), James as wisdom teacher, the relationship between James and the teaching of Jesus, ethics and the role of the law, the nature of Christian suffering, and the theology and eschatology of James.
OT 561/861 The Suffering Servant
Purpose:
- To engage in a grammatical-historical reading of Isaiah’s servant poems (Isa 42:1-9; 49:1-12, 50:4-9; 52:13-53:12) in the context of the finished book of Isaiah.
- To review the history of Jewish and Christian interpretation of these chapters with particular attention to early interpretive tendencies in subsequent Hebrew, AAramaic, and Greek texts (including the New Testament).
- To investiAgate the contribution of these poems to the motif of the “suffering righteous/righteous sufferer” in the OT and early Judaism.
- To assess the import of these poems for the construction of a Christian theology of atonement.
Topics covered include hermeneutical and critical issues in the interpretation of the servant poems, the task and identity of the servant figure, OT conceptions of righteousness and suffering in contexts of exile and restoration, vicarious suffering, representation, and messianism.
