This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2024-2025
This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!
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.
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)
Faculty or entity
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in religious studies [Modalité en ligne]
