REL 317 - Making Meaning: Reading, Interpreting and Teaching the Bible
4 credits. A1 (2018-2019).
This course provides hands-on experience reading and interpreting the Bible with attention to the Bible’s ancient and modern audiences, its public uses, its genres, cultures and themes, the social locations of its readers, methods and the ethics of drawing meaning from its content, and views of the Bible’s relationship to the sacred texts of other faith communities.