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Cosmology And Chaos In The Hebrew Bible

Key information

  • Module code:

    7AATC972

  • Level:

    7

  • Semester:

      Spring

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

Biblical texts are explored as responses to violence (human and divine, physical and verbal), and as mechanisms (ritual and legal) for ordering chaos. Models of crime and punishment, law and order, atonement and sacrifice, covenant and contract will be viewed as constructions through which injustice was rationalized and physical loss, including the trauma of exile, was reconfigured. The reshaping of violence in biblical memory, with its dramatic legacy in eschatological and apocalyptic texts, will be examined to include further striking elements which crystallize in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Assessment details

one 4,000 word essay (100%)

Teaching pattern

One two-hour class weekly over ten weeks.

Subject areas

Department

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