Tier, Mensch und Gott in der Antike: Human-Animal Studies im frühen Juden- und Christentum (LM-10B)
Dozent:innen: Dr. Justin David StrongKurs-Nr.: 01.053.630
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
The course meets weekly, using a combination of seminar and lecture. The weekly session begins in the first hour with a seminar discussion of the reading assignments, followed by a lecture to introduce the subject of the following week. Participants are free to engage during the seminar in German or English. Lectures will be given in English.Inhalt
The biblical world is filled with animals. Despite their ubiquity, animals are normally overlooked as mere background characters. What insights emerge when we bring the animals of the background to the center stage? Consider the beginning of the Gospel of Mark: In the first verses, John the Baptist is described as wild and feral in his habitat, diet, and clothing (1:4–6), the Spirit descends "like a dove" (1:10), Jesus is "among the wild beasts" in the desert (1:12), and the first words Jesus’ speaks in the Gospel tradition are an invited for Simon and Andrew to "fish for people" (1:17).Animal studies is one of the most vibrant emerging areas in the humanities today. It is motivated collectively by the "the animal turn," which decenters the human to bring non-human animals into focus and to examine the entanglement of human and animal lives. One way to convey the goals of human-animal studies is through three complementary methodological approaches: The first approach focuses on identifying the surprising ways in which humans find themselves to be like animals. A second approach works in the opposite direction to highlight the human-like traits in animals, such as sentience, subjectivity, and intentionality. The third approach questions the human/animal distinction and brings the effects of this new perspective on basic notions of human nature, animal nature, and in our course, even divine nature.
This course addresses many of the powerful and surprising ways that this new field is relevant to our exegesis of the Bible, theology, God, Jesus, the world of early Jews and Christians, and modern hermeneutical issues, including race, slavery, disability, ecology, human identity, values, and ethics.
Zusätzliche Informationen
Das Seminar findet auf Englisch statt.Informationen
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The weekly session begins with a seminar discussion of the reading assignments. As time allows or is required, a lecture introducing the subject of the next week follows. Each class session revolves around discussions of the readings. Students are expected to read the primary literature and a portion of the listed secondary literature. Undergraduate students are expected to read about thirty pages per week and graduate students about fifty pages. For every session, there is normally much more than fifty pages of reading available. This means that everyone will read the same primary literature, but not everyone will read the same secondary literature. You are free to choose from the secondary literature most interesting to you and each student will be the “expert” on their readings. During the seminar discussions, we will integrate all of the readings by sharing their contents, insights, and our reflections on them with each other.
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Class sessions
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1. Orientation in the Emerging Area of Animal Studies
2. Creation and Animal-Human-God Difference
3. What Are Animals to God and What is God to Animals?
4. Personhood: The Animal, the Soul, and Human Reason
5. Animal Ethics (Guest lecture)
6. The Sacrificial Animal, Vegetarianism, and Eating Flesh
7. The Animal and the Other: Jews, Gentiles, and Race
8. Wild Men, Demons, and Mental Illness
9. The Animal, the Slave, and the Disabled
10. Jesus the Monster: Crucifixion, Dehumanization, and Criminal Justice
11. Resurrection: Bodies, Imago Dei, and Post-humanism
12. Ecology, Extinction, and Apocalyptic
Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 21.10.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 28.10.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 04.11.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 11.11.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 18.11.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 25.11.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 02.12.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 09.12.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 16.12.2021 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 06.01.2022 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 13.01.2022 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 20.01.2022 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 27.01.2022 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |
| 03.02.2022 (Donnerstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 00 301 T5 9184 - Taubertsberg III |