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060035 SE Psalms: Bible and Afterlife (2021W)

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Language: German

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  • Tuesday 05.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Tuesday 12.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Tuesday 19.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Tuesday 09.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Tuesday 16.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Tuesday 23.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 30.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 07.12. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 14.12. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 11.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 18.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 25.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course provides an approximation to the major biblical collection of poetry, the book of the Psalms. In a first part we will focus on reading, translation, analysis, and discussion of selected psalms and we will deal with questions such as implied authorship, structure, genre, Sitz im Leben, semantic and compositional aspects, inner-biblical exegesis. In a second part we will turn to the reception history of the psalter in Judaism and Christianity. We shall read selected Jewish and Christian texts in which the psalms are used or commented upon, e.g. rabbinic texts about the psalms, excerpts from Midrash Tehillim and the New Testament.

Assessment and permitted materials

preparing of source texts, reading in Hebrew, interpreting of texts, presentation and moderation of one seminar meeting.
Seminar: 25 points max. working during the lectures
moderation: 25 points max.
seminar work: 50 points max

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

• not more than 2 Absences,
seminar work
• 81-100 points = 1.
• 61-80 points = 2.
• 41-60 points = 3.
• 21-40 points = 4.
• 0-20 points = 5.

Examination topics

see above

Reading list

-Braude, W.G. Übers. The Midrash on Psalms. 2 Bde. New Haven, CT, 1959.
-Elbaum, Y. „Midrash Tehillim.“ Encyclopedia Judaica. Second edition. Bd. 14, 191–192.
-Gillingham, S. E. Psalms through the Centuries. Bd. 1. Malden, MA, 2008
-Grohmann, M. und Y. Zakovitch. Jewish and Christian Approaches to Psalms. Freiburg 2009.
-Hossfeld, F.-L. und E. Zenger, Die Psalmen I: Psalm 1–50; Die Psalmen II: Psalm 51–100; Die Psalmen III: Psalm 101-150. Neue Echter Bibelkommentar 29, 40, 41. Würzburg, 1993, 2002, 2012.
-Kalimi, I. „Theologies and Methodologies in Classical Jewish Interpretation: A Study of Midrash Psalms and Its View of God.“ In Fighting over the Bible, 72–89. Leiden, 2017.

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