Week1
TopicIntroduction
1 . The Three-fold Division of the Hebrew Canon
2. The Old Testament and the Ancient Near Eastern World: An Overview
3. Nature of Old Testament History and Old Testament Theology
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Week2
TopicIntroduction
4. Encountering the Old Testament: Doing OT Studies in the Past Two Decades
5. Tools and Resources: An Introduction
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Week3
TopicThe Present Status of Old Testament Theology: An Overview
1 Unity and Diversity, Centre or Strata of Theological Thoughts
2 Critical Dialogue: Existing and Emerging Methods
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Week4
TopicThe Present Status of Old Testament Theology: An Overview
3 Constructing Old Testament Theology: The Present Task
4 Self-Constructing Old Testament Theology: The Practice
5 The Two-fold Theological Framework: A Proposal
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Week5
TopicC. Themes and Theology of the Pentateuch
1 Rationale and Objective
2 Prolegomena to the 3-fold Patriarchal Promise (Gen 1-11)
3 Promise of ―Heir (Gen 12-17)
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Week6
TopicC. Themes and Theology of the Pentateuch
4 Promise of ―Divine-Human Relationship (Exod-Lev)
5 Promise of ―Land (Num and Deut)
6 Doctrine of the ―Two-Ways
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Week7
TopicHistories in the Old Testament (Former Prophets and Chronicler)
1 Prophetic View of History (The Former Prophets)
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Week8
TopicD. Histories in the Old Testament (Former Prophets and Chronicler)
2 Chronicler‘s View of History: Midrashic/Didactic History
3 Apocalyptic View of History
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Week9
TopicTheology of the Prophets (Latter Prophets)
1 Prophetism
2 View of God in the Prophets
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Week10
Topic Theology of the Prophets (Latter Prophets)
3 Covenant Idea in the Prophets
4 From Divine Pathos to Prophetic Pathos: The Inner Life of the Prophets
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Week11
TopicApocalyptic Literature -- Daniel
1 Apocalyptic Movement: Two Dominant Views
2 Where is Daniel to be placed in the Overall Structure of Old Testament Theology?
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Week12
TopicApocalyptic Literature -- Daniel
3 In Times Like This: View of the Apocalyptic God
4 Major Theological Themes
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Week13
TopicTheology of the Wisdom Literature (Wisdom Books and Psalms)
1 What is Wisdom?
2 Place of Wisdom in Old Testament Theology
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Week14
TopicTheology of the Wisdom Literature (Wisdom Books and Psalms)
3 Faith Seeking Understanding
4 The Tension between the ―Norm‖ (Proverbs and some Wisdom Psalms) and (i) the ―Exceptions (Job and some Wisdom Psalms); and (ii) the ―Reflective/Thinking-out loud (Ecclesiastes)
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