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Autumn Schedule 2023

Home Learning Exploring Theology Autumn Schedule 2023

Exploring Theology 2022-23 Schedule

(correct as of 11 September 2023 – sessions and tutors are subject to change)

Exploring Theology Year A: Exploring the Bible

Autumn 2023: Exploring the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament

 

Date Term:

Session

Topic Tutor
26 Sept 2023 1:1 Reading the Hebrew Bible as Holy Scripture

Introduction to Genres, Composition & Canon

 

Discussion Texts:  Psalm 119:97-105; Habakkuk 2:1-4; II Timothy 3:14-17; II Peter 1:19-21

Dr Jayme Reaves

(Sarum College)

3 Oct 2023 1:2 Beginning at the Very Beginning Genesis 1-26

 

Discussion Text:  Genesis 1 – 3

 

Dr Megan Warner

(Luther King Centre)

10 Oct 2023 1:3 Captivity & Liberation:  

Genesis 27-50 & Exodus

 

Discussion Text: Exodus 3-4:26

ET Study Skills Session

Dr Jayme Reaves

(Sarum College)

17 Oct 2023 1:4  The Story of a Formed People: The Pentateuch as Narrative 

 

Discussion Text: Jacqueline E. Lapsley, “Feeling Our Way: Love for God in Deuteronomy,”

The Revd Dr Wesley White

(Nazarene Theological College)

24 Oct 2023 1:5 Theology, History and Literature: 

Joshua, Judges, I-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings

 

Discussion Text:  1 Samuel 14:24-46

Dr Ashley Hibbard
31st Oct 2023 1:6 Pain and Promise: Isaiah and Jeremiah as Prophetic Voices for Today 

 

 

Discussion Text: L. Juliana Classens, “Preaching the Pentateuch: Reading Jeremiah’s Sermons through the Lens of Cultural Trauma,”

ET Study Skills Session & Book Reviews due

The Revd Dr Wesley White

(Nazarene Theological College)

7 Nov 2023 1:7 Performance & Prophecy:  

The Minor Prophets

 

Discussion Text: Amos 1-3

Dr Jayme Reaves

(Sarum College)

14 Nov 2023 1:8 Songs of Faith & Doubt:  

The Psalms

 

Discussion Text: Psalm 27

Dr Ann Conway-Jones

(University of Birmingham)

21 Nov 2023 1:9 Suffering & the Meaning of Life: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes

 

Discussion Text: Selection of texts in uploaded sourcesheet

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

(Pears Foundation)

28 Nov 2023 1:10 The Text in Conversation: Ruth, Jonah, and Esther vs. Ezra and Nehemiah

Discussion Text: Jonah 1, 3-4 (skip chapter 2)

ET Essays Due

Dr Jayme Reaves

(Sarum College)

 

 

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