Wednesday, July 19, 2017

READINGS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: Wisdom Literature

READINGS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

CRE/CLP Leadership Training

Presbytery of San Francisco Education Center
July 28-29, 2017


Instructor:  Sung Kim  
                     (510) 559-9128 
                     berkeleyks@yahoo.com

Teaching Assistant:   Susan Hunn
(925) 708-4449
SHunn13@gmail.com

Course Description:

This course will be a reading of Wisdom Literature in the Old Testament. Sung Kim will help the students read from the prospective of those who are steeped in Wisdom Literature as in Asian and Buddhist traditions and cultures.

Before class students will read Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. With the following questions in mind
  • Are justice and happiness congruent? Or, are you just to live a happy life?
  • What do the texts say about the suffering of the just?
Students are also to develop one question that they have of the readings.
Required Texts:

The Bible – NRSV as well as other translations


Course Requirements:

  1. Attendance at both class sessions.
  2. Read the text before class bring insights from the questions and their own question to class.
  3. There will be on short writing assignment that will be developed during the class that will be due in the next couple of weeks.