BBCL625

Through a combination of biblical exegesis and theories from fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology and autobiographical narrative, students examines the questions of theodicy (and anthropodicy) in the Hebrew Bible, with emphasis on the quest for social, ecological, and economic justice questions to be considered: What kind of God-character do we have in the Hebrew Bible? Conversely, what kinds of social, religious, and political systems produce, justify, and challenge that character? How is justice executed (double entendre: "killed" and "enforced") in the prophetic, psalmodic, wisdom, and narrative texts of Hebrew Bible?

Level: GD (I), GM (I), PD (I), PM (I), TM (I), TP (I),