Description: This is the second half of Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (OT/HB). There is a pre-requisite (OT/HB I). In this course, participants engage the (Latter) Prophets (Major and Minor) and Writings of the HB/OT. Particular attention is given to the historical, political, and social developments that produced the literature of the HB/OT. Canonical consciousness, with attention to rewritings, additions, and interpolations are addressed. Other issues of social and religious injustices and abuses, including paleoclimatology, with attention to temple-centeredness, forced migrations and forced and voluntary return migrations, inter-marriage, generational consciousness, human suffering, gender issues, powerlessness, and the apocalypse, among other seminal topics from the text are analyzed and reframed to offer a better understanding of textual development by competing diaspora and remnant communities.

Seminary: Howard University School of Divinity

Science areas: Environmental Science