________________________________________________________________________________________________ Modulhandbuch B.A.-Studiengänge 2024/25; Stand 12. Juni 2024 Seite [33] B1125 Monotheism, Violence, Messianic Expectations Code MVM Workload 120 h ECTS 4 CP + 1 for Evaluation Subject semester 5 or 7 Frequency bienially Duration 1 Semester Class type (Core Course: P / Elective: W / Partial Elective: WP) WP: ETH, TDS, TSA; W: TPI Teaching Mode Lecture Contact Hous 3 SWS/ 45 UE Individual Study 75 h Additional Time Requirement Course objectives: Professional expertise Students acquire knowledge of: • The debate about the specific contours of OT monotheism and its possible development • The difference between OT monotheism and ancient Near Eastern forms of polytheism on the one hand and post-biblical (Jewish and Islamic) concepts of monotheism on the other • The debate about the relationship between monotheism and violence • The OT’s description of divinely ordained violence • Differences in the appreciation of violence in biblical and extra-biblical texts (ancient Near Eastern and Islamic) • The specific contours of two sub-types of violence, slavery and death-penalty • The main strands of messianic expectations in the OT and their relevance for understanding the NT witnesses about Jesus Course objectives: Skill set Students are able to critically evaluate different views on the topics of • biblical monotheism, • the relationship between monotheism and violence, • divinely ordained violence in the OT, • the differences between the evaluation of violence in biblical and selected extra-biblical traditions, • two sub-categories of violence (slavery and death-penalty), • the complexities of the origins and development of various types of messianic expectations in the OT, • the relevance of the OT messianic text for the understanding of the NT depictions of Jesus Contents • Introduction to the OT understanding(s) of monotheism, its historic background and specific contours in the polytheistic world of the Ancient Near East • the question of the development of OT monotheism • differences between biblical and post-biblical understandings of monotheism • current issues in the debate about the ethical implications of biblical monotheism, especially as far as the question about the connection between monotheism and violence is concerned • different interpretations of the violence attested in the reports of the conquest of Canaan and the Deuteronomic prescriptions concerning the conquest, including a close reading of the relevant biblical texts • differences between violence in the Bible and in the ancient Near East and post-biblical Islamic traditions • slavery and death-penalty as specific sub-categories of violence • the roots and development of various types of messianic expectations in the Hebrew Bible • further development of messianic expectations through the intertestamental into the New Testament periods Teaching Mode Lecture, discussion, student presentations Prerequisites none
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