| BSG4495 | Transfer Credit for BSG | No Description Set |
| BSG5505 | LITERATURE OF BIBLICAL WORLD | An Old Testament background course surveying the literatures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Canaan in English translation, and their role in illuminating Old Testament literary genres, with special emphasis on the relevance of Canaanite literatu... |
| BSG5510 | FUND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION | Mental health professionals will often encounter clients operating from within a Christian world view. This course seeks to provide these professionals with a framework for examining how an individual's interpretations of discrete Scriptures position... |
| BSG5515 | AFRICAN AMERICAN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATIO | This course is an introduction to the historical, methodological, ideological, interdisciplinary, multidimensional, global scholarship of womanist scholars. It builds upon the work of first generation scholarship that was primarily a challenge to fem... |
| BSG5530 | WOMANIST HERMENEUTICS & LITERATURE | The format for this class is a graduate seminar that focuses primarily on theological literature produced by womanist scholars. Womanist scholarship gives expression to African American women's efforts - politically, culturally, emotionally, psycholo... |
| BSG6600 | RACE, GENDER & THE BIBLE | A graduate seminar that focuses specifically on the intersection surrounding race, gender, sexuality and the Bible. It is part of a substitution theory of post-colonial biblical interpretation that takes seriously the hermeneutical shift from centeri... |
| BSG6635 | BIBLICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF WOMEN | This course will explore the literary construction of women in the Old and New Testaments as virgins and whores/prostitutes and how virtue and violence is associated with such images. We will also discuss how such constructions impact or intersect wi... |
| BSG6637 | SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC & RHETORICAL APPROACH | This course continues the introduction to modern techniques of biblical criticism, extending the foundation to include social-scientific, cultural-anthropological, rhetorical, and ideological modes of analysis. Special emphasis will be given to disc... |
| BSG6638 | CRITICAL APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL INTERPR | A survey of the methods and approaches that constitute contemporary biblical scholarship, with special attention given to the historical-critical method, social-scientific approaches, and literary and postmodern reading stances. Students are introduc... |
| BSG6644 | APOCRYPHA & CHRISTIAN CHURCH | Cross-listed with CHS 6607 and CTH 6607 The Apocrypha contains Jewish texts from the Hellenistic and Roman period but exists as a collection because of the reading practices of the early Christian Church. This course will introduce students both to... |
| BSG6650 | ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD | Aspects of the history and archaeology of the Oriental, Greek and Roman culture of the ancient world of the Mediterranean will be illustrated using materials from the Seminary's Pictorial Archives and artifacts from the Smith Collection of Palestinia... |
| BSG6651 | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY OF JERUSALEM | The history and religious importance of Jerusalem will be portrayed for the student. Students will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the geography, history and topography of the immediate locality. Students will investigate accounts of archaeological... |
| BSG6652 | OLD TESTAMENT ARCHAEOLOGY | A brief introduction to methods of archaeological research and the interpretation of the findings will be considered at the beginning of the course. Then will follow a survey of archaeological work in the Bible lands with particular attention to the... |
| BSG6653 | NEW TESTAMENT ARCHAEOLOGY | This course will deal with the findings of archaeology as they bear upon the interpretation and understanding of the New Testament and its original language. It will include examination of the literary, historical and cultural background of the New T... |
| BSG6665 | POSTCOLONIAL APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL STU | One of the defining characteristics of postcolonial biblical interpretation is distinguishing between the biblical reading strategies of dominant cultures and dominated cultures. Drawing especially upon cultural criticism, cultural studies, social lo... |
| BSG6694 | FIELD EXPERIENCE IN ARCHAEOLOGY | Upon request students will be given opportunities to explore a wide range of individual options in pursuing hands-on activities in the field of Biblical Archaeology. Participation on a dig in the Near East, work with the Robert Houston Smith Collecti... |
| BSG7790 | Pilot Course in Bib Studies | Uncatalogued courses are offered occasionally to enrich the offerings of the major and to tap the resources of department faculty and visiting scholars. Specific course titles and descriptions are available when the course is scheduled. |