Old Testament Seminar 1 - RETA1011

• Title: SZP-Old Testament Seminar 1
• Form of teaching: practicals
• Guaranteed by: Katedra biblických studií (27-BS)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2025 to 2025
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: summer
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jan Rückl, Ph.D.; prof. Filip Čapek, Ph.D.; doc. Petr Sláma, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : RETA9301
• Is pre-requisite for: RETA1100

Annotation

The aim of the course is to become proficient in the methodology of biblical exegesis, in other words the
independent analysis of biblical texts. The texts are examined together, firstly from the linguistic viewpoint, and
then in terms of content. The course also includes an introduction to the various exegetical schools, approaches,
and trends, with the help of the relevant reference literature (generally the historical-critical method and its various
schools, structural analysis, reader-response criticism, feminist exegesis, social-critical analysis, etc.).

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)

Course completion requirements

Regular preparation for the individual lessons and completion of the tasks assigned during them.

Preparation and presentation of papers on the various exegetical schools and their methods.

Final paper, in which one of the assigned biblical passages is translated from the ancient languages (Hebrew and Greek), fully exegetically analysed, and provided with a detailed interpretive commentary.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)

Literature

BARTON,John. Reading the Old Testament, Method in Biblical Study, London 1984/1962(2).

FOHRER, Georg et al. Exegese des Alten Testaments, Heidelberg 1983(4).

John HAYES, Biblical Exegesis, Westminster Press 1990.

KREUZER, Sigfried and VIEWEGER, Dietrich ed. Proseminar I: Altes Testament, Ein Arbeitsbuch, Stuttgart 1998.

OEMING,Manfred. Contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics: An Introduction, London 2006.

UTZSCHNEIDER, Hans and NITSCHE, Ark. Arbeitsbuch literaturwissenschaftliche Bibelauslegung. Eine Methodenlehre zur Exegese des Alten Testaments, Gütersloh 2001.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)