Course: Understanding Biblical texts (5603-271)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mell (verantwortlich)

Type of Course:

seminar

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

In the proseminar, the students get to know the problems of transmission of biblical texts with the aid of two selected text examples from the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the proseminar, the students are introduced to the method of scientific, transparent text interpretation. The students get to know how textual criticism, literary criticism, form and genre criticism, motive criticism, and redaction criticism handles texts and what their goals are. The students are familiar with a hermeneutically responsible handling of biblical texts.

Literature:

Die Einheitsübersetzung der Bibel, Freiburg u.a. 2000ff.;

U. Becker, Exegese des Alten Testaments, Tübingen 2005ff.

U. Schnelle, Einführung in die neutestamentliche Exegese, Göttingen 5. Aufl. 2000ff.

Additional literature will be announced in the course of the lecture.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 5603-270 Basic Module Biblical Theology 2 (compulsory)