User:ProfGray/312/Lesson plan week 7

Monday

 * Test
 * Discussion of comparative take-home essay

Wednesday
Unit II. The Promised Land.

Intro to the Deuteronomic history

Objectives for today

 * 1) Answer any questions about the take-home essay
 * 2) Review and understand key terms and arguments in Coogan pages from the syllabus, though downplayed
 * 3) Peer review of paraphrases of Mendenhall and Weinfeld

Coogan ch. 9, Law and ritual

 * Law and the Covenant Code, 128-134. Exodus 20:19 – 23:33 (Covenant code)
 * Comparison with Code of Hammurapi (18th C. BCE), among others
 * Cases = casuistic law
 * General declarative statements = apodictic law
 * Framing w/ values of society and religion
 * Covenant code
 * Polytheistic wording (p.131, Ex. 22:7-9) and implication (theology? origins?)
 * Ark of the covenant, tabernacle, priests *135-7
 * Ritual Decalogue, Coogan 141f. Exodus 34:1-35
 * Competing Decalogue sources ("traditions") p.141
 * Pilgrimage festivals three

DTR and lead-up to Kings

 * Setting the stage: Deut. ch. 17 (laws and kings)
 * Deuteronomistic history
 * Multiple editions
 * Apostasy --> Exile
 * Themes: Exclusively to whom? Where? Covenant with whom?
 * Favorites. Hezekiah and Josiah. Why?
 * Style: speeches
 * What's the time span? Which six centuries? (198)
 * Book of Joshua
 * Archaeological evidence of the conquest
 * Theological justification of Israelite possession of the land (210)
 * 210-211 (Historicity and religion)
 * Herem / ban
 * vs apostasy
 * avoid disease (?!)
 * Ritual and the ark of the covenant
 * Sanctuary and surgery at Gilgal