Exodus and Torah

This course introduces the first five books of the Old Testament and selected sections of the Torah in order to focus on relevant questions and problems that people raise in connection with these texts.

This course, taught by Timothy E. Saleska at Concordia Seminary, consists of two parts: (1) Introduction to the first five books of the Old Testament in which we discuss the content of the Torah and its relationship to the rest of the Canon, and (2) a close encounter with selected sections of the Torah in order to focus on relevant questions and problems that people raise in connection with these texts.

Seminary: Concordia Seminary
Keywords: Cosmology, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, Exodus and Torah, Old Testament, physics

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