Religion 12: Introduction to Religion

Winter 2008

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Students Rel 12b

Students Rel 12c

Alfons H Teipen, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Furman University

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Paul Connelly, Definition of Religion and Related Terms	Thomas A. Idinopulos, What is Religion
Letter to Diognetius	Gerald A. Larue, "The Analysis of the Pentateuch," in: Old Testament Life and Literature (1968)
Excerpts from the meaning of the Qur'an	Excerpts from the Babylonian Epic: Enuma Elish (alt. site)
Blood and Purity in Leviticus, K. C. Hanson (alt. site)	Creation in the Rg-Veda
	Epic of Gilgamesh: The Flood (alt. site)
Reading on Passover	Star Wars: A Myth for Our Time (alt.server)
Muslim Prayer Services and Ablution (alt.)
Talmud on Leaven	Reader on Islam: Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
Brief Introduction to the Hajj (alt.server)	Israel's Monarchy and the Divided Kingdom	History from Babylon to Rome
Karma Ghost Cartoon @ BillyBlob.com
Robert C. Tannehill, The Gospel of Mark as Narrative Christology	Thomas W. Overholt, Prophecy: The Problem of Cross-Cultural Comparison
An Introduction to the New Testament by Richard Heard  Part 2: The Gospels and the Life of Jesus (alt.server)	Beyond the Hebrew Bible: The Formation of the New Testament Canon, By Nigel Watson(alt. site)
Burke O. Long, Social Dimensions of Prophetic Conflict	Jesus and the Jewish Resistance, by Hyam Maccoby
Heard, The Apostle Paul	Examples of Talmudic Literature
Transformed on the Mountain: Ritual Analysis and the Gospel of Matthew, by K. C. Hanson	Mary C. Boys: The Cross: Should A Symbol Betrayed Be Reclaimed?
	Maimonides on Law
Martin Luther's Introduction to Romans	Martin Luther on Galatians 3:1-9
Martin Luther: "The Jews and Their Lies" (1543)	Maimonides on the Messiah
Hans Jonas, The Concept of God after Auschwitz	Dorothy A. Lee, Matthew's Gospel and  Judaism
The Nicean Creed	The Chalcedonian Definitions
Mary Phil Korsak, EVE, MALIGNANT OR MALIGNED? (alt)	Marshall Neal, Women at Work and Worship (alt. server)
Hinduism Overview	Brief Overview of Buddhism
RITA NAKASHIMA BROCK, Casting Stones: the Theology of Prostitution (Brock, alternative server)	Robert N. Bellah, "Civil Religion in America."
Women in Islam, by Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem Please read this witrh a grain of salt; it';s a polemical piece..	Blood Sacrifice and the Nation, by Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle
Women in the Bible and the Lectionary
Rita M. Gross, RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY:  SOME IMPLICATIONs FOR MONOTHEISM	Nine Ways Not to Talk about God, Raimon Panikkar

Overheads:

Graf - Wellhausen hypothesis	The Canon of the TaNaKh
Divergences in the Canon of the "Old Testament"
Composition of the Torah (Larue)	Textual History OT
A comparision b/w Genesis 1-2 and Enuma Elish	Quran: Textual history
Rg-Veda	Comparative Cosmogonies
The five Skhandhas / khandhas of Theravada Buddhism	Seven Noahide Laws
Passover Seder
Van Gennep, Turner, Gaster	Jewish Calendar
Biblical Times: Adam - Moses, overview	The Seder Plate
Life of Muhammad 1	Life of Muhammad 2
Life of Muhammad 3	Qur'an and theology
Quran and universal revelation	Jesus in the Qur'an
Hajj-overview	State of Ihram
5/6 Pillars of Islam
From Mt. Sinai to Babylon	From Babylon to Rome
Canon Formation of Christian Scriptures	Important Textual Witnesses to the Christian Scriptures
Overview Textual Criticism
Gospels compared	Persecution of European Jewry
From Jesus to Christ (1st and 2nd centuries)	End of the Gospels
Pauline Models for Salvation	Trinity and Christology in the New Testament
Persecution of Jews	Council at Javneh / Jamniah
Hinduism: Varnashrama-Dharma System	Hinduism: Ashrama / Samskara
Traditional Reading of Genesis 2-3	Women in the Bible
Ninian Smart's Seven dimensions in application
Life of Buddha 1	Life of Buddha 2
Dependent Origination	The five Skhandhas / khandhas of Theravada Buddhism
Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path	Dependent Origination visual
	Women in the Bible / Overhead 2

Online Quizzes
Midterm Preparation
Preparation for the Final Exam

Study Aides

• Glossary for beginning Theologians, University of Notre Dame
• Robert Kraft's Glossary of terms for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
• Timeline for History of Judaism and Christianity, R. Kraft, B. Rosenstock
• PBS Website: From Jesus to Christ
• Jerusalem Mosaic: First Temple to present

Other Resources
Semeia, anexperimental journal for biblical criticism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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