This course explores the challenges and possibilities of interpreting Scripture in the modern age, considering the tensions between historical-critical methods and the theological reading of the Church. The course illustrates the diversity of outcomes arrived at by employing the historical-critical method.

This course explores the historical circumstances of Paul’s correspondence and early questions of transmission and collection, including the historically grounded proposal that Onesimus may have played a formative role in the gathering of Paul’s letters.

This course introduces students to Biblical Greek through direct engagement with the Greek Bible, with particular attention to its emergence within the linguistic, cultural, and historical world of the eastern Mediterranean.