TH 555 - Introduction to the Old Testament

• Assignments: 6 Units
• Interactivity: Discussion Board

• Describe the history (major time periods), literature (genres), and theologies of the Old Testament, as well as methods for studying them.
• Explain the meanings of these ancient Israelite sacred texts by learning to discriminate among the literary, social, and religious dimensions of the texts.
• Demonstrate the method of “close reading” of particular passages in the Old Testament with special attention to genre, using relevant secondary sources.
• Explain the ways that the canon of the Old Testament is joined with the New Testament as “The Bible.”
• Study the ways in which the Old Testament is used as Scripture within the Catholic community.