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 104-268 The New Testament and Judaism in Ancient Palestine

Note

Available as 104-368 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr R G Jenkins

Prerequisites

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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