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Apr 18, 2024
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RLST 154 PO - Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
Examines the wisdom literatures of the Hebrew Bible (Proverbs, Job, Qohelet) in their ancient Near Eastern and literary contexts, and alongside what might be considered latter-day wisdom literature, that is, works by 20th-century writers influenced by existentialism (Simone de Beauvoir, Elie Wiesel, and Tom Stoppard). We will read biblical texts first for themselves, and then alongside more recent works, discussing the themes of love, suffering, evil, absurdity, and action as they apepar in both sets of texts. Attention will also be paid to the issues at stake in textual interpretation, and the degree to which the contemporary texts are afterlives of the ancient texts. CWS, MES.
Course Credit: 1.0
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