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| 0690-4281-01 | Literary and Cognitive Approaches to Biblical Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The course discusses the two modern and close interpretational approaches to biblical literature: the Literary and Cognitive approaches. It seems that both approaches share a common premise that most biblical pericopes consist of an inherent unity. Thus, textual constituents which according to other methodologies are perceived as causing disharmony are here seen as contributing to content, meaning and textual coherence. Basic concepts of both approaches are introduced and applied. Concepts related to the Literary approach and raised for discussion are: foregrounding, plot, characters, time and focalization. Discussed concepts related to the Cognitive approach are: deixis, coherence, schemas, semantic fields, metaphors and genres.
The course will include several guest lecturers, who will share their interpretational approaches to the Hebrew Bible as well as their recent findings.
The course will include several guest lecturers, who will share their interpretational approaches to the Hebrew Bible as well as their recent findings.