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FROM THE BABLYONIAN EXILE
TO THE MACCABEAN REVOLT
Schedule and Sources for January 24 to February 3, 2005
Monday, January 24:
Historical & Cultural Context: Persia & the Hellenistic World
Segal, pp. 173-80, 190-92, 204-11, 214-19
Class handout
Monday, January 27:
Prophetic Perspectives on Heaven, Judgment, and Exile
*Isaiah
40:12-31;
45:1-8;
65;
66 (HB)
*Ezekiel
1;
8;
9;
10;
28;
37:1-14;
40;
41;
42;
43 (HB)
Segal, pp. 198-203, 255-61
Class handout
Thursday, January 31:
Mortality and the Justice of God in Post-Exilic Wisdom Literature
*Qohelet (Ecclesiastes)
1;
2;
3;
4;
5;
6;
7;
8;
9;
10;
11;
12 (HB)
*Tobit
1;
2;
3;
4;
5;
8;
11;
12;
13;
14 (OTA)
*Wisdom of ben Sira
1;
14:11-19;
15:11-20;
17;
41 (OTA)
Segal, pp. 221-23, 248-55
Class handout
Thursday, February 3:
Early Ascent Apocalypses: Heaven and the Places of Judgment
*Astronomical Book: 1 Enoch 80-82 (OTP)
*Book of the Watchers: 1 Enoch 1-36 (OTP)
Segal, pp. 272-81
Class handout
Assignments: Jan 6 to 20 |
Jan 24 to Feb 3 |
Feb 7 to March 7 |
March 10 to April 4
McMaster University ||
Department of Religious Studies
Annette Yoshiko Reed - Email, Homepage
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