The best thing that Old Testament Theology can do for you is to provide you with big pictures, overarching patterns and frameworks for reading an ancient document which was written for us, but was not written to us.
My purpose for this semester is to introduce you to five basic issues, four theological frameworks and three practical discussions about reading the OT theologically. We will expire the OT's unity and diversity, normative and problematic nature. We will look into promise, exile, relationship and order as theological categories we could bring to any issue we face. Finally, we will apply these problems and frameworks to the Ten Commandments and human rights, the OT's multiple perspectives on well being, and its views on culture, reading and writing.
You too will be given an opportunity to contribute to these discussions through your regular class participation and your presentation on an approved topic or theologian. In the end, I hope to have persuaded you that the OT offers us a unique witness to who God is and what he does, a rich source and resource for our faith, values and practice, a reliable and inspired word of the living God and a profound reflection on the experience of God.
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Najbolja stvar koju starozavjetna teologija može učiniti za vas je pružiti vam velike slike, sveobuhvatne obrasce i okvire za čitanje drevnog dokumenta koji je napisan za nas, ali nije napisan nama.
Moja je svrha ovog semestra upoznati vas s pet osnovnih pitanja, četiri teološka okvira i tri praktične rasprave o teološkom čitanju SZ. Istražit ćemo jedinstvo i raznolikost SZ-a, normativnost i problematičnost. Pogledat ćemo obećanje, progonstvo, odnos i red kao teološke kategorije koje možemo unijeti u bilo koje pitanje s kojim se suočimo. Konačno, primijenit ćemo ove probleme i okvire na Deset zapovijedi i ljudska prava, višestruke perspektive SZ-a na dobrobit i njegove poglede na kulturu, čitanje i pisanje.
I vama će se pružiti prilika da doprinesete ovim raspravama kroz svoje redovito sudjelovanje u nastavi i vaše izlaganje o odobrenoj temi ili teologu. Na kraju, nadam se da sam vas uvjerio da nam SZ nudi jedinstveno svjedočanstvo o tome tko je Bog i što čini, bogat izvor i izvor za našu vjeru, vrijednosti i praksu, pouzdanu i nadahnutu riječ Boga živoga i duboko promišljanje o iskustvu Boga.
- Teacher: Aleksandar Apostolovski
- Teacher: Danijel Casni
What on earth is a prophet? How on earth should we read the chaos of the prophetic books? How does God see the Jerusalem Temple? Is God's Torah as false as the scribes and priests who work with it? Can God suffer or change his mind? Can idols be found only in our hearts?
These are some questions which a reader of the Book of Jeremiah may have. During the course of this semester, it is my purpose to help you think through these exciting, interesting, challenging and (possibly even) disturbing questions. We will explore each of these questions as we take a closer look at Prophetic literature in the OT and the role of the book of Jeremiah. We will pay close exegetical attention to Jeremiah's temple sermon (7:1-15), his critique of the wise and the priests (8:4-12), God's outcry of pain and anguish (8:18-9:3), and a didactic poem on divine images and wisdom (10:1-16).
Join me as I seek to apply a textually faithful, yet firmly contextual, exegetical approach to Jeremiah 7-10. Together with me, you will be asking about meaningful wholes, literary types (genre), what does it say about God, what are things I do not know about and what might it do to me if I read it.
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Što je, u opće, prorok? Kako bismo, zaista, trebali čitati kaos proročkih knjiga? Kako Bog vidi jeruzalemski hram? Je li Božja Tora pokvarena kao pisari i svećenici koji se sa njom služe? Može li Bog patiti ili promijeniti svoje mišljenje? Mogu li se idoli naći samo u našim srcima?
Ovo su neka pitanja koja čitatelj Jeremijine knjige može imati. Tijekom ovog semestra, svrha mi je pomoći vam da razmislite o ovim uzbudljivim, zanimljivim, izazovnim i (možda čak) uznemirujućim pitanjima. Istražit ćemo svako od ovih pitanja dok pobliže promatramo proročku literaturu u SZ i ulogu Jeremijine knjige. Pomno ćemo egzegetski obraditi Jeremijinu hramsku propovijed (7,1-15), njegovu kritiku mudraca i svećenika (8,4-12), Božji vapaj boli i tjeskobe (8,18-9,3), i didaktičku pjesmu o božanskim kipovima i mudrosti (10,1-16).
Pridružite mi se dok nastojim primijeniti tekstualno vjeran, ali čvrsto kontekstualan, egzegetski pristup Jeremiji 7-10. Zajedno sa mnom pitat ćete se o smislenim cjelinama, književnim vrstama (žanrovima), što tekst govori o Bogu, o kojim stvarima ne znam dovoljno i što bi mi moglo ovaj tekst učiniti ako ga pročitam.
- Teacher: Aleksandar Apostolovski