SRJC Course Outlines

3/28/2024 10:39:42 AMHUMAN 10.2 Course Outline as of Fall 1988

Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION

Discipline and Nbr:  HUMAN 10.2Title:  PROPH/NEW TEST LIT  
Full Title:  Prophetic & New Testament Literature
Last Reviewed:5/13/2019

UnitsCourse Hours per Week Nbr of WeeksCourse Hours Total
Maximum3.00Lecture Scheduled3.0017.5 max.Lecture Scheduled52.50
Minimum3.00Lab Scheduled06 min.Lab Scheduled0
 Contact DHR0 Contact DHR0
 Contact Total3.00 Contact Total52.50
 
 Non-contact DHR0 Non-contact DHR Total0

 Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  HUMAN 10B

Catalog Description:
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A critical and historical exploration of Old Testament prophetic literature and the development of the New Testament with emphasis on the quest of the historical Jesus, Paul and the growth of the Early Church.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:


Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
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A critical & historical exploration of Old Testament prophetic literature & the development of the New Testament with emphasis on the quest of the historical Jesus, Paul & the growth of the Early Church.
(Grade or P/NP)

Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:Effective:Fall 1981
Inactive: 
 Area:E
Humanities
 
CSU GE:Transfer Area Effective:Inactive:
 C2HumanitiesFall 1981
 
IGETC:Transfer Area Effective:Inactive:
 3BHumanitiesFall 1981
 
CSU Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1981Inactive:
 
UC Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1981Inactive:
 
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable



COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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The student will:
1.  Overcome the structural problems arising either from a fear of or an
   unfamiliarity with the style of the biblical text.
2.  Acquire the skills to read and discuss the biblical text with
   reasonable ease and comprehension.
3.  Distinguish between the assumptions and hermeneutic techniques of
   traditional biblical exegesis and the methodology and conclusions of
   modern biblical criticism.
4.  Delineate critically and aesthetically the distinctive portraits of
   the life and teachings of Jesus in the Gospel accounts.
5.  Describe and explain the contribution of Paul to the growth of the
   early Church over and against the complex cultural background of the
   Hellenistic Roman world.
6.  Discuss the centrality of the contemporary quest of the historical
   Jesus in the development of modern biblical criticism.
7.  Describe the connection between Orthodox and Gnostic Christianity
   and the process of scriptural canonization.

Topics and Scope
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1.  Contrasting Traditional and Modern critical understandings of Old
   Testament prophecy: Reading the prophet against the background of
   his own time and circumstances.
2.  I Isaiah and the Assyrian invasion; II Isaiah and the Persian
   Conquest; Cyrus the "messiah".
3.  Persian Zoroastrian dualism and Yahwist monotheism: Job.
4.  The Greek conquest and the nature of Hellenism: Hellenism and
   Judaism: the Septuagint Bible.
5.  Antiochus and the Maccabean Revolt; the Sages and the roots of
   Pharisaism.
6.  Daniel and the birth of Apocalyptic Eschatology.
7.  The development of Roman dominance: Jerusalem at the time of Jesus:
   Political and Social topography.
8.  Introduction to the problems related to the quest of the historical
   Jesus. Tracing Q and the Gospel of Thomas and the Two/Four Source
   theory; Form Criticism and Redaction Criticism and what these tell
   us about the transmission of information relating to Jesus.
9.  The growth of the Early Church: Palestinian, Hellenistic Jewish
   Mission and Gentile Christianity.
10. The Social and religious background of the Greco-Roman world.
11. Paul, his definition of Christianity referring to Thessalonians,
   Romans, Gelatians and the Corinthian correspondence.
12. Returning to the Quest of the Historical Jesus: deciphering the
   authentic teachings of Jesus within the Synoptic Gospels and the
   oral and written traditions of the Early Church: determining the
   criteria for authenticity: the proclamation of the the Kingdom of
   God: Jesus' use of aphorisms and parables, describing the emerging
   image of the historical Jesus.
13. Applying critical method to key New Testament texts: investigation
   the historic anti-Judaism of the New Testament hermeneutic: exploring
   the rise of Christian clericism and orthodoxy and its hermeneutic.
14. Reviewing the relationship between rabbinic Judaism and the early
   church in the period following the destruction of Jerusalem.
15. Tracing the roots of Christian Gnosticism; the Gospel of Thomas; the
   Johannine Tradition; The Gospel of John and Gnosticism.
16. The process of New Testament canonization.

Assignments:
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Assignments for Humanities 10.2 include the following:
1.  Regular reading assignments from course texts.
2.  No less than four writtn essays which are to be critical responses
   to assigned biblical texts. These will also involve integrating
   critical references from contemporary New Testament scholarship.
3.  A final examination based on classroom lecture/discussion and the
   critical text book for the course.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.Writing
50 - 80%
Reading reports, Essay exams
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.Problem Solving
20 - 50%
Exams
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.Exams
0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.Other Category
0 - 0%
None


Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (or its equivalent).
THE NEW TESTAMENT: AN INTRODUCTION by N. Perrin and D. Duling,
         3rd ed., Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.

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