This section of the course website lists the topics for lecture and discussion and provides access to class prep pages for each day. Click on a title to go to that page.

Schedule of Topics

	Wk	Date	Topic
	1	September 26	(How) Is Scripture Study Scientific? Jewish Approaches
	2	October 1	Present-ing the Past: Engaging God @ Sinai Now
		October 3	Suffering & the Limits of Human Knowing
	3	October 8	Imagining Alternative Communities & Futures
		October 10	Telling the Stories of Jesus
	4	October 15	Seeking Certitude: The (Scientific) quest for the Historical Jesus
		October 17	Suffering & Salvation: Early Christian Paradigms
	5	October 22	Shaping the Qurʾan in Islam
		October 24	Believing, Behaving, Submitting
	6	October 29	Jesus & the Mahdi in Muslim Tradition Exam #1 Review Session: TBD
		October 31	EXAM #1 Study Sheet Exercise to practice authors of Torah Exercise to practice arguing links between authors and historical circumstances
	7	November 5	Who Was (and Is) Abraham?
		November 7	Electing Election
	8	November 12	Testing Faith
		November 14	Changing Notions of God & Community
	9	November 19	Scripture & Sex: Revisiting Sodom after United States v. Windsor
		November 21	Class cancelled The professor will be in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore for research and a professional meeting; enjoy sleeping in!Battling over Marriage
		November 25-29	Thanksgiving Break
	10	December 3	Does Science Challenge Scripture? The Creation-Evolution Debate Exam #2 Review Session: TBD
		December 5	Does Science Challenge Scripture? Confusions of Science & Faith Exam #2 Study Sheet