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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL 277 - The Bible As Literature Credits: 5 LEC hours per week: 5 The Literature of the Bible is a five-credit course designed to introduce both beginning and experienced readers of the Bible to the artistry of its stories and poetry. Neither a religious nor historical approach is applied towards the biblical text; instead, the Bible is approached from a literary standpoint. Formerly: LIT 277. Course Outcomes:
- Competently employ literary terminology and apply it to analysis of the Bible’s themes and literary devices.
- Identify important Biblical figures and the stories attached to them, and recognize the contents of several traditionally important books within the Bible.
- Recognize the broad array of genres present in the Bible, including poetry, narrative, history, and rhetoric.
- Examine the varied cultures from which the Bible emerged and the history of its physical/textual composition.
- Assess the relationship between the Bible and its themes to its contextual times, places, and historical and political events.
- Identify the diversity of voices, styles, ideologies, and experiences revealed in the Bible, as well as appraise the contributions of previously overlooked perspectives.
- Interpret and analyze the Bible critically by presenting and clarifying opinions and responses to reading through use of textual evidence and other rhetorical devices.
Course Topics:
- Biblical poetry.
- Biblical narrative.
- Elements of literature.
- Biblical allusions in literature.
- Biblical subject matter and themes in literature.
- Myth.
- Cultural values.
- Literary analysis.
- Biblical history.
- Makeup and history of the Bible.
- Biblical peoples and cultures.
Course Attribute(s): Humanities
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