Postgraduate Course: The Bible, Literature and Hermeneutics (BIST11015)

Course Outline
School	School of Divinity	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course will explore the cross-over areas of interest in the fields of biblical and literary studies. Issues arising from a consideration of the Bible IN literature and of reading the Bible AS literature will be discussed. The course will begin with a brief survey of literary approaches to the Bible and of the Bible's influence in literary texts. Then, through readings of specific literary and biblical texts, the interplay between the Bible and literature will be explored. Readings from different critical perspectives will be offered, including those of intertextuality, reader-response, feminism and postmodernism.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Reading the Bible and Literature (BIST10038)	Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students should: * have a detailed knowledge of selected literary and biblical texts and of critical ways these texts have been read; * be aware of current issues in biblical studies regarding the hermeneutics of reading the Bible as literature, and be able to assess the influence of literary studies on the discipline; * be able to reflect critically on the influence of the Bible in the field of English and Scottish Literature, and offer their own readings of the implications of that influence.