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Old Testament
This is a foundational course, in terms of teaching the imagery that is central to the chosen people as they are set apart by God, and as they come to understand the will of God and learn to be conformed to him through covenant, through sacrifice and through seeing and drawing near to the holy things of heaven and to the Holy One who reveals himself to them. The Old Testament is also seen as the Scriptures that are opened by the Christ for the Church, before there is a written “New Testament.”
An understanding of the relevance of Old Testament thought to the teachings of the New Covenant and the sense of continuity between the God who reveals himself through the Law and the God-man Crucified and raised from the dead, will be emphasized throughout the course. While on the one hand engaging critical historical and other modern methodologies, the students are also encouraged to see the Scriptures as alive in the Liturgy and in the interpretation of the Church fathers. The class deals with issues of genre, community tensions, ancient Near Eastern context and literature as it impacts the Scriptures. as a deepened sense of the Tradition both before and after the canonization of the text.