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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Classical Studies

104-268/368 The New Testament and Judaism in Ancient Palestine

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr R G Jenkins

Prerequisite/s:

Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.

Contact:

Two lectures and a tutorial a week or equivalent.

Subject Description:

A socio-political and theological study of religious movements in first century Palestine. Students on completion of the subject should have acquired an enhanced understanding of the historical and religious environment within which earliest Christianity emerged as a Jewish sectarian movement, and a confidence to interact critically with biblical and extra-biblical texts of the period.

Assessment:

3000 words of written work (50%) and a 2-hour examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Vermes G, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin.
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