YEAR ONE REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
ACADEMIC COURSE
New Oxford Annotated Bible, Fully revised Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press,
2010.
Anderson, Bernhard W., Bishop, Steven and Newman, Judith. Understanding the
Old Testament, Fifth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall 2006.
Barton, Steven C. ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (Paperback
edition), Cambridge University Press 2006.
Dunn, James D. G. ed. The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (Paperback
edition), Cambridge University Press 2003.
PRACTICAL COURSE
The Book of Common Prayer, 1979
ACADEMIC COURSE ASSIGNMENTS SEPTEMBER 2014
Each month’s academic class time is divided into five one hour components. The
reading assignments are listed in this way as well. The assignments for
September are listed below.
A1.1.1 Introduction to the Academic Instructors. No reading assignment.
A1.1.2 The Hermeneutical Circle
“The Gospels and the Reader,” by Sandra Schneiders, in The Cambridge Companion to
the Gospels (97-118).
Mark 5:1-20, together with the footnotes in your New Oxford Annotated Bible.
Required Activity: Complete the hermeneutical inventory (attached to this email).
A1.1.3 Biblical Chronology
The New Oxford Annotated Bible, (Fully Revised Fourth Edition, hereafter “NOAB”),
“Introduction to the Pentateuch” (pp. 3-6).
NOAB “Cultural Contexts: The Ancient Near East and Ancient Israel to the Mid-First
Millennium BCE” (pp. 2236-42).
NOAB, “Cultural Contexts: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods” (pp. 2242-47).
NOAB, “Cultural Contexts: The Roman Period” (pp. 2247-53).
NOAB,“Timeline” (pp. 2254-57).
A1.1.4 Second Temple Period
Matthew 22:34-40, Jeremiah 19, Jeremiah 7, Mark 11:15-18
A1.1.5 Exile as the Definitive Experience for Israel
Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament, Chapters 12, 13, 14, pgs 388-459.
1 Peter 1:1, Jeremiah 7, Jeremiah 24:1-10, Jeremiah 29:1-7. Jeremiah 31:31-34,
Ezekiel 40-48, Isaiah 40, Isaiah 45:23 Genesis 12:1-3 Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 1:1-18