Professor Bruce D. Chilton
CHILTON@BARD.EDU
Professor Jacob Neusner
JNEUSNER@LUNA.CAS.USF.EDU
Monday, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
Office hours: After lunch on Mondays or Tuesdays
Reading:
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God (McGill-Queens University Press, 1999)
Chilton & Neusner:
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories I. Revelation. The Torah and the Bible. Philadelphia, 1995: Trinity Press International.
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories II. The Body of Faith: Israel and Church. Philadelphia, 1997: Trinity Press International.
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories. III. God in the World. Philadelphia, 1997: Trinity Press International.
Judaeo-Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah. With Bruce D. Chilton. Minneapolis, 1998: Fortress Press.
I
Introduction
Principia Theologica: Thinking Philosophically about Religious Myth
1. Monday, September 6
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP. iii-xvi
2. Monday, September 13
Monday, September 20: No class. Yom Kippur
II
Mythic Monotheism: Creation, the Nature of Man, the Fall
3. Monday, September 27
4. Monday, October 4
TO BE READ BY OCTOBER 4:
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP 3-89, 409-508.
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories. I. Revelation. The Torah and the Bible. COMPLETE.
Judaeo-Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah. With Bruce D. Chilton. Minneapolis, 1998: Fortress Press. PART ONE.
Monday, October 11: No class, Reading week
III
Torah and Christ
6. Saturday, Oct 16
Study Conference: Religious Belief and Economic Behavior. Students are expected to attend the papers of this conference, two of which (those of Prof Neusner and Prof Chilton) will be integral to the course.
7. Monday, October 18
TO BE READ BY OCTOBER 18
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP 509-645.
Judaeo-Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah. PART THREE
8. Monday, October 25
IV
The Body of Christ vs. Holy Israel
a. City of God and City of Man vs. Israel and the Nations
9. Monday, November 1
TO BE READ BY NOVEMBER 1
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP 90-191.
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories II. The Body of Faith: Israel and Church
V.
The Body of Christ vs. Holy Israel
b. Imitation of Christ
vs.
"You Shall Be Holy, for I the Lord your God am Holy"
10. Monday, November 8
11. Monday, November 15
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP 239-408
VI.
Sin and Atonement, Resurrection and Eternal Life
Monday, November 22: No class. Professors attend American Academy of Religion meeting
12. Monday, November 29
13. Monday, December 6
TO BE READ BY DECEMBER 6
Neusner, The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God, PP 639-670.
Christianity and Judaism: The Formative Categories. III. God in the World.
Judaeo-Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah PART TWO.
VII.
Conclusions
14. Monday, December 13