User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 7
Monday[edit]
- Test
- Discussion of comparative take-home essay
Wednesday[edit]
Unit II. The Promised Land.
Intro to the Deuteronomic history
Objectives for today[edit]
- Answer any questions about the take-home essay
- Review and understand key terms and arguments in Coogan pages from the syllabus, though downplayed
- Peer review of paraphrases of Mendenhall and Weinfeld
Coogan ch. 9, Law and ritual[edit]
- Law and the Covenant Code, 128-134. Exodus 20:19 – 23:33 (Covenant code)
- Comparison with Code of Hammurapi (18th C. BCE), among others
- Cases = casuistic law
- General declarative statements = apodictic law
- Framing w/ values of society and religion
- Covenant code
- Polytheistic wording (p.131, Ex. 22:7-9) and implication (theology? origins?)
- Comparison with Code of Hammurapi (18th C. BCE), among others
- Ark of the covenant, tabernacle, priests *135-7
- Ritual Decalogue, Coogan 141f. Exodus 34:1-35
- Competing Decalogue sources ("traditions") p.141
- Pilgrimage festivals three
DTR and lead-up to Kings[edit]
- Setting the stage: Deut. ch. 17 (laws and kings)
- Deuteronomistic history
- Multiple editions
- Apostasy --> Exile
- Themes: Exclusively to whom? Where? Covenant with whom?
- Favorites. Hezekiah and Josiah. Why?
- Style: speeches
- What's the time span? Which six centuries? (198)
- Book of Joshua
- Archaeological evidence of the conquest
- Theological justification of Israelite possession of the land (210)
- 210-211 (Historicity and religion)
- Herem / ban
- vs apostasy
- avoid disease (?!)
- Ritual and the ark of the covenant
- Sanctuary and surgery at Gilgal
- Herem / ban