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CLASS PRESENTATION: Assignment Details
Students lead discussion (as a group) on a selected topic for 45-50 min
*Due one week before (by Wed at 1:00)
Each student should submit (via email aerickson@iliff.edu )
-- a 2 page paper based on her/is interaction with the topic and the readings (each group member is expected to review [CLOSELY!] all the readings AND one of the suggested readings). The paper might include but should not be limited to a personal response. You might conclude by articulating questions you are left contemplating
Groups should submit to me (via email aerickson@iliff.edu ) (again, ONE WEEK BEFORE !!)
Due one week after (by Wed at 1:00).
A brief evaluation of the session and of the student’s individual participation in the process. List the strengths and weaknesses (bullet points are fine). Please submit via email.
Course Description
This course invites students to engage the book of Jonah in conversation with works of literature, art, and theology that either interpret Jonah and/or explore questions raised the book, including the nature of God, prophecy, election, death, and transformation. The course will introduce students to the history of interpretation of Jonah in both Christian and Jewish traditions. Of particular interest will be early Christian and medieval art and Jewish midrashic texts based on Jonah. We will also explore conversations between Jonah and works of English literature and consider Jonah’s afterlives in popular culture.
The instructor will labor to limit the amount of reading to less than 75 pages per week.
Required Text
Sherwood, Yvonne. A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Date | Day | Details | |
Feb 27, 2014 | Thu | What is Reception and Why Should We Care? | due by 06:59AM |
Apr 02, 2014 | Wed | Jonah 1, Early Jewish Interpretation | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 09, 2014 | Wed | Jonah 2, Early Christian Interpretations | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 16, 2014 | Wed | Jonah 3, Jews and Christians | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 23, 2014 | Wed | Jonah 4, Medieval Jewish Interpretations | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 23, 2014 | Wed | Jonah in the Qur'an | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 30, 2014 | Wed | the Zohar | due by 03:00PM |
Apr 30, 2014 | Wed | The Pearl Manuscript, Patience | due by 03:00PM |
May 07, 2014 | Wed | Christian Mystics | due by 03:00PM |
May 07, 2014 | Wed | Medieval Art | due by 03:00PM |