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Postgraduate Course: Ancient Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Texts (BIST11019)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Divinity CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course is a workshop in the interpretation of a range of ancient Jewish, Christian, and pagan texts in original languages and in translation. Emphasis will be placed on philological, literary, and historical questions.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis is a graduate-level course. Please confirm course prerequisites with the course manager.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will have:
undertaken detailed exegesis of one or more key ancient religious texts;
improved their ancient language skills;
gained experience writing a major interpretive essay;
gained expertise in one or more key texts or issues in religion in the ancient world.
Students will also be able to:
read and interpret key primary texts in their original languages;
integrate diverse pieces of primary evidence pertinent to a research question;
render independent critical judgments on pertinent modern scholarship;
give a sophisticated account of a pertinent issue in ancient Mediterranean religion.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsAncient, Jewish, Christian, pagan, texts, Greco-Roman, religion, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin
Contacts
Course organiserDr Matthew Novenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8942
Email: matthew.novenson@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Joanne Hendry
Tel: (0131 6)50 7227
Email: J.Hendry@ed.ac.uk
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