Undergraduate Course: Jesus and the Gospels (BIST08021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Divinity |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is the partner to Paul and his Letters (level 8). It is an introduction to the study of Jesus and the Gospels within their Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts and is aimed at students beginning their study of the New Testament. We will pay particular attention to recent work on the historical Jesus and Mark's Gospel (the earliest extant 'life of Jesus'), besides surveying a range of other gospels, both canonical and apocryphal. Finally, we will ask why some Gospels were included in the Christian canon while others were not. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 33,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
150 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Course Work 30%. Comprising:
1) Case File: Compose a report on a historical event/group from the first century (eg the Pharisees, Herod I, the Temple, Galilee). 500 words, due beginning of week 3.
2) Text notes: Apply one reading strategy to a gospel text (form criticism, redaction criticism etc). 1000 words, due beginning of week 6. (ie the week after innovative learning week)
3) Exegetical Essay: on a passage from Mark. 1500 words, due beginning of week 10.
All the above to be marked by tutors and monitored by academic staff.
Tutorials 10%. Attendance compulsory (as with lectures). Students to prepare an A4 tutorial sheet as an aide memoir in class. Tutors will check that these are done, but will not take them in or mark them. The final score in this section of assessment will be largely determined on the basis of class participation, after consultation between the tutors as a group and the Course Manager.
December Exam 60%
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will have:
- An understanding of some of the issues surrounding the reconstruction of Christian origins.
- Familiarity with the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of the early Jesus movement and the Gospels.
- Developed abilities in the interpretation of early Christian literature, particularly Mark's Gospel;
- Developed abilities in critical evaluation of secondary literature in the discipline.
- Developed abilities in critical thinking, construction of an argument, and prose composition.
- Demonstrated an ability to identify key terms and their meanings;
- Demonstrated good judgement about how to judge the relative importance of items on course bibliographies.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Jesus, Gospels, Mark's Gospel, canonical Gospels, apocryphal Gospels, Jewish and Graeco-Roman contex |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Philippa Townsend
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Course secretary | Ms Katrina Munro
Tel: (0131 6)50 8900
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