课程大纲 | 高峰枫：《圣经》释读
本篇推送展示的是北京大学外国语学院教授高峰枫老师本学期开设的核心通识课程《〈圣经〉释读》的课程大纲。
本门课程以《圣经》原典的阅读为中心，同时辅以二手文献。希望高老师对《圣经》章节作的筛选、安排和列出的二手文献能够对大家研读《圣经》有所帮助。
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课程大纲
《圣经》释读
课程大纲
开课院系：外国语学院
授课教师：高峰枫
学分：2
教师介绍
高峰枫，男，1968年11月生，北京大学外国语学院英语系教授、系主任。1986-1993年在北京大学英语系学习，获学士、硕士学位。2002年美国加州大学伯克利分校比较文学系毕业，获博士学位。2002-2015年任北京大学外国语学院英语系讲师、副教授，2015年至今任教授。2011年起担任北京大学外国语学院英语系系主任。主要研究领域为早期基督教、圣经与西方思想传统。代表论著有《古典的回声》（浙江大学出版社，2012年）、《古典的回声二集》（浙江大学出版社，2016年）、《文字游戏与价值重估：普罗芭的维吉尔集句诗》（《国外文学》2015年第1期）、《挪亚的预言与美国奴隶制》，（《中山大学学报》（社会科学版），2016年第5期），及译著《册子本起源考》（北京大学出版社，2015年）。另担任北京大学西方古典学中心副主任、浙江大学人文社科高等研究院学术委员会委员。
教材
The New Oxford Annotated Bible, fully revised fourth edition, ed. Michael G. Coogan (Oxford University Press, 2010).
John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, 2nd edition (Fortress Press, 2014).
Bart Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (Oxford, 1999).
Michael Coogan, The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2008). 【中英对照本，《旧约入门》，外语教学与研究出版社，2013年】
课程大纲
2月26日
Introduction. Preliminaries.
Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible,
”Introduction”, 1-7 (the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, different canons); 10-16 (Biblical chronology).
2月19日
Ancient Near East and the Bible. Documentary Hypothesis. Creation of the World.
Genesis 1.
Collins, Introduction, chapter 1, 27-32 (Ancient Near East), 34-36 (Enuma Elish), 36-38 (Gilgamesh); 49-61 (Documentary Hypothesis); chapter 3, 78-80 (creation).
3月5日
Adam and Eve. Noah.
Genesis 2-3 (Adam and Eve); Flood and Noah’s Ark: Genesis 6-9.
Collins, Introduction, re-read 52-58 (J and P accounts of the flood); 33-34 (Atrahasis); 69-77 (Adam and Eve); 81-82 (flood).
Recommended：Norman Cohen, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (Yale, 1996).
3月12日
Abraham. Jacob.
Abraham, Genesis 12-13, 15, 16 (Sarah & Hagar), 17 (circumcision), 18 (prophecy), 19 (Sodom), 21:1-21 (birth of Isaac), 22 (sacrifice of Isaac or Aquedah).
Jacob: Genesis 26-33, particularly 25:19-34; 27-33;
Collins, Introduction, chapter 4;
Recommended: Jon D. Levenson, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton, 2012); Yair Zakovitch, Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (Yale, 2012); James Kugel, The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretation of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children (Princeton UP, 2006).
3月19日
Jacob and Joseph
Joseph story: Genesis 37-50.
3月26日
Exodus and Moses
Exodus 1-19.
Collins, Introduction, chapter 5.
Recommended：理查德•弗罗因德《跟着圣经去考古》（上海三联书店，2017年），第1章；米耶斯，《〈出埃及记〉释义》（华东师范大学出版社，2009年）。Nahum Sarna, Exploring Exodus (New York: Schocken Books, 1986).
图为首本印刷本《圣经》，“古滕堡《圣经》”
4月2日
Covenant and Laws; Deuteronomy
Exodus, 20-23; excerpts from Deuteronomy: sacrifice (6:4-7:11; 12:1-5; 12:29-31; 13; 18:9-19); slaves (15:1-18); the poor (24:14-22); festivals (16:1-17); legal justice (16: 18-20; 17:8-13; 19:15-21); kingship (17:14-19); War (20: 10-18; 21:10-14).
Collins, Introduction, chapters 5 and 8 (163-177).
Recommended: Jon Levenson, Sinai and Zion (HarperOne, 1985), 1-86.
4月9日
Conquest of Canaan. Origin of Ancient Israelites.
Joshua, 1-6 (fall of Jericho); 7-8 (Ai); 9-10 (five kings); 11 (destroying Hazor); 23-24(Joshua’s last words).
Collins, Introduction, chapter 9, 189-203.
Recommended: Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), chapters 3 & 4; William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2003).
4月16日
Judges
Judges, 4-5 (Deborah), 6-8 (Gideon), 11-12 (Jephthal); 13-16 (Samson);
Collins, Introduction, chapter 10
4月23日
Birth of Monarchy. A King Anointed and Dethroned.
1 Samuel, 1-3 (Samuel the prophet); 8 (“Give us a king”); 9-12 (Saul anointed); 15 (Saul rejected by God); 16-17 (young David); 18-19 (Saul’s persecution of David); 24 (David spares Saul); 31 (death of Saul).
Collins, Introduction, chapter 11; Robert Alter, The David Story (Norton, 1999), 36-45, 101-111.
Recommended: Michael Walzer, In the Shadow of God (Princeton UP, 2012), chapter 4; Sandra L. Gravett et al. (eds.), An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), chapter 9.
4月30日
NO CLASS.
图为《圣经》“巴比伦娼妇”插画
5月7日
David. Book of Ruth.
2 Samuel; Ruth.
Collins, Introduction, chapter 12; Robert Alter, The David Story相关章节。
Recommended: David Wolpe, David: The Divided Heart (Yale, 2014)；
5月14日
Book of Job. Jonah
Excerpts from Job; Book of Jonah;
Collins, Introduction, chapter 25; 547-551.
5月21日
New Testament, Gospels, and Historical Jesus.
Ehrman, Introduction, chapters 1-3;
5月28日
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Mark;
Ehrman, Introduction, chapter 4;
6月4日
Gospel of John
Gospel of John;
Ehrman, Introduction, chapter 10.
图为《圣经》“鱼吞约拿”插画
考核方式
Two short book reports (4-5 pages each) or a longer one (2,000 words); final exam.
2篇短的英文读书报告请从下列书中选择：
Norman Cohen, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (Yale, 1996).
Yair Zakovitch, Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (Yale, 2012).
David Wolpe, David: The Divided Heart (Yale, 2014).
1篇长的英文读书报告请从下列书中选择：
Jon D. Levenson, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton, 2012).
Nahum Sarna, Exploring Exodus (New York: Schocken Books, 1986).
Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 1-196.
William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2003).
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