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JESUS OF NAZARETH CENTER FOR HOLY LANDS STUDIES SUMMER INSTITUTE Course Number/ Jesus of Nazareth Instructor: Mr. Marc Turnage COURSE SYLLABUS COURSE DESCRIPTION A study of Jesus’ life and teachings within their historical, cultural, and physical settings. Primary attention will be given to placing Jesus’ message within the context of first-century Judaism. OBJECTIVES 1. To place Jesus within historical-cultural matrix of first century Judaism 2. To understand Jesus’ sayings and teachings within linguistic-cultural settings of first century Judaism 3. To introduce students to archaeological data and its significance for understanding the life of Jesus 4. To develop a historical reading of Jesus within the historical, cultural, and linguistic settings of first century Judaism TEXTBOOKS David Flusser with R. Steven Notley, The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus’ Genius (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2007) Jesus of Nazareth Course Reading Packet (Provided by the Center for Holy Lands Studies) BASIC OUTLINE The course will cover the following topics: 1. Sources, Ancestry, and Birth 2. Law 3. Love and Ethics 4. Kingdom of Heaven 5. Son of Man 6. Jerusalem 7. Death METHODOLOGY The course will consist of readings in primary and secondary sources, classroom lectures and discussions, as well as a number of field studies and onsite learning in Israel. COURSE REQUIREMENTS
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Prior to arrival in Israel: students will read and write a four-page, double-spaced book review on Dave Flusser’s, The Sage from Galilee. This review is due upon arrival in Israel. Students are expected to come to class having read the assigned readings and ready to participate in the classroom lectures and discussions. Students are expected to attend every class, field trip, and class related lecture during their time in Israel. Course Synthesis Paper (see Summer Institute Final Course Requirements)
GRADING PROCEDURE 100-90 A 89-80 B 79-70 C 69-60 D 59-0 F NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED! SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Charlesworth, James H. and Loren Johns, eds., Hillel and Jesus: Comparisons of Two Major Religious Leaders (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997) Charlesworth, James H., ed., Jesus and Archaeology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) Charlesworth, James H., ed., Jesus’ Jewishness: Exploring the Place of Jesus in Early Judaism (New York: Crossroad, 1991) Chilton, Bruce, Darrell Bock, Daniel Gurtner, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence Schiffman, and Daniel Oden, eds., A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark: Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2010) Collins, John J. and Daniel C. Harlow, ed., The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2010) Evans, Craig, Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2001) Evans, Craig, Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012) Evans, Craig, ed., The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpretation in the Early Communities of Faith (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2011) Fitzmyer, Joseph, The Semitic Background of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1997)
Jesus of Nazareth (Continued) Turnage Flusser, David, Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Jerusalem: Magness Press, 1988) Flusser, David, Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Volume 1: Qumran and Apocalypticism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2007) Flusser, David, Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Volume 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2009) Flusser, David, The Spiritual History of the Dead Sea Sect (Tel Aviv: MOD Books, 1989) Freyne, Sean, Jesus A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus-story (London: T&T Clark, 2004) Goodacre, Mark, The Case Against Q (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) Horbury, William, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy, ed., The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume Three: The Early Roman Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Katz, Steven, ed., The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume Four: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Kazen, Thomas, Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? (Winona Lake, Indianan: Eisenbrauns, 2010) Instone-Brewer, David, Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament. Volume 1: Prayer and Agriculture (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2004) Instone-Brewer, David, Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament. Volume 2a: Feasts and Sabbaths: Passover and Atonement (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2011) Magness, Jodi, Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2011) Meyers, Eric and James Strange, Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity (London: SCM Press 1981) Nickelsburg, George W. E., Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003) Nickelsburg, George W. E. and Michael Stone, Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009) Notely, R. Steven and Ze’ev Safrai, Parables of the Sages: Jewish Wisdom from Jesus to Rav
Jesus of Nazareth (Continued) Turnage Ashi (Jerusalem: Carta, 2011) Pastor, Jack and Menachem Mor, eds., The Beginnings of Christianity: A Collection of Articles (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2005) Rainey, Anson F. and R. Steven Notley, The Sacred Bridge: Carta’s Atlas of the Biblical World (Jerusalem: Carta, 2006) Reed, Jonathan, Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2002) Safrai, Shmuel and Menahem Stern, ed., The Jewish People in the First Century: Historical Geography, Political History, Social, Cultural and Religious Life and Institutions (2 vols.; Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum [CRINT]; Assen: Van Gorgum, 1974, 1976) Safrai, Shmuel, ed., The Literature of the Sages. Part One: Oral Tora, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates (CRINT; Assen: Van Gorcum, 1987) Safrai, Shmuel, Zeev Safrai, et. al, ed., The Literature of the Sages. Second Part: Midrash, Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (CRINT; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2006) Sanders, E. P., Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985) Sanders, E. P., Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah (London: SCM Press, 1990) Sanders, E. P., Judaism Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66CE (London: SCM Press, 1992) Sanders, E. P., The Historical Figure of Jesus (London: Penguin Books, 1993) Schiffman, Lawrence H., From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1991) Schiffman, Lawrence H., Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1998) Schürer, Emil, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (4 vols.; rev. and ed. by G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Black; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1979) Shanks, Herschel, ed., Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development (2nd ed.; Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2011) Snodgrass, Klyne, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2008)
Jesus of Nazareth (Continued) Turnage Stone, Michael, Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2011) Stone, Michael, ed., Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus (CRINT; Assen: Van Gorcum, 1984) Tomson, Peter J., ‘If this be from Heaven…’: Jesus and the New Testament Authors in their Relationship to Judaism (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) Vermes, Geza, Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981) Vermes, Geza, The Religion of Jesus the Jew (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) Young, Brad, Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007) Young, Brad, The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1998) SPECIFIC DATA Prepared by Marc Turnage, September, 2013.
