This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2024-2025
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Content
This course is meant to understand the unity and diversity between the two Testaments. This year (2022-2023) the focus is on food and meals. The first session is a presentation of the topic and its anthropological, sociological and theological impact.
During the next sessions students will learn to know clusters of texts in the Old and the New Testament that are intertextually connected with each other. These related passages allow the students to discover the most important aspects of the topic of the course: food as a physiological necessity, religious restrictions about food, sociological consequences of these restrictions, the "sacred meal", ..
Each session consists of the study of a NT pericope in its context (historical, socio-cultural) and its intertextual relationship with OT passages and other Jewish tradition. Not only the specific interpretation in the NT is studied, but alo the changes in cultural and religious contexts.
The last meeting will allow us to make a summary and to clarify the theological perspective.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
During the next sessions students will learn to know clusters of texts in the Old and the New Testament that are intertextually connected with each other. These related passages allow the students to discover the most important aspects of the topic of the course: food as a physiological necessity, religious restrictions about food, sociological consequences of these restrictions, the "sacred meal", ..
Each session consists of the study of a NT pericope in its context (historical, socio-cultural) and its intertextual relationship with OT passages and other Jewish tradition. Not only the specific interpretation in the NT is studied, but alo the changes in cultural and religious contexts.
The last meeting will allow us to make a summary and to clarify the theological perspective.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Outline the anthropological, sociological, and theological issues of food in the Bible.
- Identify, in a given NT passage, intertextual links to one or more OT passages.
- Analyze how a given NT passage that has an intertextual connection to an OT passage uses and interprets the latter.
- Demonstrate that the consumption of food was subject to religious restrictions that varied according to the milieu and the time (writers of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Pharisees, Jesus...).
- To argue in favor of one exegetical interpretation, and against another, in a debate.
Teaching methods
This course contains:
- some moments of ex cathedra teaching;
- discussions in the classroom;
- oral presentations and discussions.
Evaluation methods
Evaluation will be based on a written assignment to be handed in and presented orally before the end of the semester.
Attendance to this course is required. In accordance with article 72 of the General Regulations for Studies and Examinations, the course instructors may propose to the jury to refuse registration to a student who has not attended at least 80% of the courses during the January/June or September session.
The evaluation method in Q3 will be slightly different: it will only be a written assignment to be submitted on Moodle.
The use of generative artificial intelligence for writing assignments is tolerated but not encouraged,as it is ill-suited to the assessment required. In particular, students must indicate point by point and in a precise manner the bibliographical sources justifying the assertions made in the written work, in compliance with bibliographical referencing standards. AIs are not considered as such sources.
In accordance with the instructions of the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs, “the student is required to systematically indicate all parts where AIs have been used, for example in footnotes, specifying whether the AI was used to search for information, to write the text or to correct it. In addition, sources of information must be systematically cited in compliance with bibliographic referencing standards. The student also remains responsible for the content of his or her production, regardless of the sources used.”
Attendance to this course is required. In accordance with article 72 of the General Regulations for Studies and Examinations, the course instructors may propose to the jury to refuse registration to a student who has not attended at least 80% of the courses during the January/June or September session.
The evaluation method in Q3 will be slightly different: it will only be a written assignment to be submitted on Moodle.
The use of generative artificial intelligence for writing assignments is tolerated but not encouraged,as it is ill-suited to the assessment required. In particular, students must indicate point by point and in a precise manner the bibliographical sources justifying the assertions made in the written work, in compliance with bibliographical referencing standards. AIs are not considered as such sources.
In accordance with the instructions of the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs, “the student is required to systematically indicate all parts where AIs have been used, for example in footnotes, specifying whether the AI was used to search for information, to write the text or to correct it. In addition, sources of information must be systematically cited in compliance with bibliographic referencing standards. The student also remains responsible for the content of his or her production, regardless of the sources used.”
Other information
One course of introduction to the Old Testament and one course of Introduction to the New Testament.
Bibliography
Voir Peter Altmann, "Food and Food Production", Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies.
(disponible sur Moodle, avec d'autres ressources et indications bibliographiques)
(disponible sur Moodle, avec d'autres ressources et indications bibliographiques)
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