| Course Title: Topics in Religion: 'Knowing God' |
| Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2024 |
| Description: This course examines the following key texts from the ancient world that treat significantly the problem of knowing God and the mystery enveloping such knowledge: Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Plato's Phaedo, Cicero's Concerning the Nature of the Gods, Job, Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and others. Attention is also given to the different ways of thinking about the divine and human natures in these works, which are broadly reflective of Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian value systems. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Bruce Arnold | 413-538-2872 | barnold@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 216 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| CLAS-247-01 Knowing God |
| RELIG-225KG-01 Knowing God |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 9 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Sophocles, Theban Plays Author: Tr. Meineck & Woodruff, Copyright: 2003 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Hackett |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: Plato's Phaedo Author: Brann, Kalkavage and Salem, Copyright: 1998 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0941051692 Publisher: Focus Publishing / R. Pullins Co. |
Required | 10.95 |
| Title: Cicero: The Nature of the Gods Author: tr. P.G. Walsh, Copyright: 2008 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780199540068 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 13.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Most translations of the Bible will be adequate, although widely used in colleges is The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version, 5th edition, 2018, which is the latest. I will supply my own translations with study notes for The Book of Job and Paul's Epistle to the Romans. It will be good to have many translations to compare. Most of these other texts can be found online for less expensive prices. |