History 288 Home | Schedule of Readings and Assignments

Introduction to History 288

Central questions of the course

  • What did it mean to be a Christian?
  • What was Christianity?
  • Basic tutorial questions

    History 288 Requirements

  • Attendance and class preparation: Check syllabus and web pages regularly.
  • Quizzes and test
  • Reading assignments
  • Written assignments: First essay, Second essay

    Navigating the Bible

  • English translations Key terms:
  • Old Testament (at least 39 books)
  • New Testament (27 books)
  • canon from a Greek word = a straight rod or bar, a carpenter’s rule, a rule or standard; canonical, canonicity
  • apocrypha / deuterocanonical books
    Citation by book, chapter, verse(s) not by page number

    Interpreting the Bible

  • the Bible as a library
  • authorship of the Bible, revelation
  • historical or literal sense
  • spiritual senses: moral, allegorical, anagogical
  • uses of Bible: for determining what Christians believe and how they should worship, for preaching, for moral and spiritual guidance,
    for prayer and devotion
  • the Bible as an historical source