OTS 201 L99.A Old Testament Survey II: Job through Malachi

CRISWELL COLLEGE Credit: 3 semester hours/3 undergraduate credit units Term: Winter 2015 – 16 Instructor: David Brooks Email: [email protected]

I. Course Description: The study of the books of Job through Malachi, focusing on the nature and formation of the poetic and wisdom literature of ancient Israel, as well as the oracles of the Hebrew prophets, their message and contribution to Israel’s history and faith. (Prerequisite Recommended: OTS 101)

II. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course you should be able to: A. Locate on a timeline these OT books and the major OT events and characters they mention; B. Explain how each book fits into the historical context of the OT timeline and its theological context in the history of redemption; C. Describe the occasion, message, and structure of each book; D. Identify the literary genres present and explain their functions; E. Outline a basic survey of the content of each book; F. Identify the basic interpretative and critical issues, particularly authorship and date; and G. Apply biblical principles from the OT to contemporary situations.

III. Textbooks A. The Holy Bible. B. Hill, Andrew E., and John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. 3d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009. (ISBN 9780310280958)

IV. Assignments/Requirements and Evaluations A. 4 exams. The exams come from the lectures and notes (not the textbook) and are in multiple-choice, true-false, and matching format. You have access to the tests on Blackboard. Tests are late after 12:00 midnight at the end of the due date (see the schedule below). You are permitted 60 minutes for each one. They are not open-book exams: 1. Poetry through Proverbs 2. Ecclesiastes through Hosea (see the schedule for exact books) 3. Isaiah through Lamentations (see the schedule for exact books) 4. Obadiah through Malachi (see the schedule for exact books)

B. Discussion Boards: Student-to-student discussions on Blackboard over two issues from this part of the OT. The complete descriptions and rubric are available on Blackboard. Original threads are due on Wednesday night, responses by Thursday night.

C. Bible Reading. Read most of Job through Malachi in a version of your choice and report the reading on the Bible Reading Report available on Blackboard. See the Bible Reading Report to see which chapters to read, since we will not read 100% of this part of the OT. If undistracted this reading takes approximately 20 hours. Approximately three chapters make one percent of the assignment. The reading is due on Thursday night after the end of the term (so, on January 14). 2

D. Reading Hill and Walton. Read this textbook, pp. 375-750 (chapters 20 – 47), and report the pages read on the Textbook Reading Report on Blackboard, due at the end of the term. We do not cover the chapters in canonical order, but chronological. Check the reading schedule below to read in coordination with the lectures.

E. Write two 3- to 4-page, double-spaced genre papers from a list of passages on Blackboard, following the guidelines in the Criswell College Manual of Style (2010), which is on Blackboard and on the Criswell website under the Wallace Library page. Look under research resources. Use the footnote/ bibliography reference method, not the parenthetical reference/works cited method. (Your bibliography should be short and footnotes minimal.) The Course Schedule of Events (VII) below has the due dates.

V. Grading A. Criswell grading scale:

A 97-100 4.0 grade points per semester hour A- 93-96 3.7 grade points per semester hour B+ 91-92 3.3 grade points per semester hour B 88-90 3.0 grade points per semester hour B- 86-87 2.7 grade points per semester hour C+ 83-85 2.3 grade points per semester hour C 80-82 2.0 grade points per semester hour C- 78-79 1.7 grade points per semester hour D+ 75-77 1.3 grade points per semester hour D 72-74 1.0 grade point per semester hour D- 70-71 0.7 grade points per semester hour F 0-69 0.0 grade points per semester hour

B. Weighted grading

The following are the proportions of your grade for each type of assignment a.i.1. Tests 50% a.i.2. Discussion Boards 15% a.i.3. Bible Reading 10% a.i.4. Hill & Walton 10% a.i.5. Genre papers 15%

C. Incomplete grades Students requesting a grade of Incomplete (I) must understand that incomplete grades may be given only upon approval of the faculty member involved. An “I” may be assigned only when a student is currently passing a course and in situations involving extended illness, serious injury, death in the family, or employment or government reassignment, not student neglect. Students are responsible for contacting their professors prior to the end of the term, plus filing the appropriate completed and approved academic request form with the Registrar’s Office. The “I” must be removed (by completing the remaining course

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requirements) no later than 60 calendar days after the grade was assigned, or the “I” will become an “F.”

VI. Institutional policies: A. You are responsible to abide by the policies presented in the "Academic Policies" section of the Criswell College Catalog (www.criswell.edu/acadmics/academic catalog).

B. Academic Honesty: Absolute truth is an essential belief and basis of behavior for those who believe in a God who cannot lie and forbids falsehood. Academic honesty is the application of the principle of truth in the classroom setting. Academic honesty includes the basic premise that all work submitted by students must be their own and any ideas derived or copied from elsewhere must be carefully documented. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: • cheating of any kind, • submitting, without proper approval, work originally prepared by the student for another course, • plagiarism, which is the submitting of work prepared by someone else as if it were his own, and • failing to credit sources properly in written work.

VII. Course Schedule of Events: Notice that when we get to the prophets, Week 4, we go in chronological order with the prophets. So, we don’t read the textbook straight through from there to the end. The chapters are listed in the order we discuss them.

Wee Dates Content Reading Assignments Written Assignments k HW is Hill & Walton 1 Dec 14 Poetry, Job HW: chapters 20 – 21 Discussion Board 1: Job: – 17 Lecture: Poetry, Job Comfort and Retribution 2 Dec 18 Psalms, Proverbs HW: chapters 22 – 23 Test 1: Poetry, Job, Psalms, – 20 Lecture: Psalms, Proverbs Proverbs 3 Dec 21 Ecclesiastes, Song HW: chapters 24 – 27 Discussion Board 2: Bible – 24 of Songs, Prophecy Lecture: Ecclesiastes, Song and Sex of Songs, Prophecy 4 Dec 25 Jonah, Amos, HW: chapters 37, 35, 33 Test 2: Ecclesiastes, Song – 27 Hosea Lecture: Jonah, Amos, Hosea of Songs, Prophecy, Jonah, Amos, Hosea 5 Dec 28 Isaiah, Micah, HW: chapters 28, 38 – 39 Psalm Message Paper – 31 Nahum Lecture: Isaiah, Micah, Nahum 6 Jan 1 – 4 Zephaniah, HW: chapters 41, 40, 29 – 30 Test 3: Isaiah, Micah, Habakkuk, Lecture: Zephaniah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, Lamentations Lamentations Lamentations 7 Jan 5 – 7 Obadiah, Ezekiel, HW: chapters 36, 31 – 32 Prophetic Message Paper 4

Wee Dates Content Reading Assignments Written Assignments k HW is Hill & Walton Daniel Lecture: Obadiah, Ezekiel, Daniel 8 Jan 8 – Haggai, Zechariah, HW: chapters 42 – 43, 34, 44 Bible Reading Report; 10 Joel, Malachi - 47 Textbook Reading Report; Lecture: Haggai, Zechariah, Test 4: Obadiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Malachi Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, Joel, Malachi

VIII. Bibliography

Archer, Gleason L., Jr. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. 4d ed. Chicago: Moody, 2007.

Arnold, Bill T., and Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey. 2d edition. Encountering Biblical Studies, edited by Eugene H. Merrill and Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2008.

Beitzel, Barry. The New Moody Atlas of the Bible.2d ed. Chicago: Moody, 2009.

Bullock, C. Hassell. An Introduction to the Old Testament Poetic Books. Chicago: Moody, 1979.

Coogan, Michael D. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Craigie, Peter C. The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth and Content. Nashville: Abingdon, 1986.

Freeman, Hobart E. An Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets. Chicago: Moody, 1968.

Gower, Ralph. The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times. 2d ed. Chicago: Moody, 2005.

Harrison, Roland K. Introduction to the Old Testament. 2d ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Hoerth, Alfred J., Gerald L. Mattingly, and Edwin M. Yamauchi, eds. Peoples of the Old Testament World. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.

Kidner, Derek. The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job & Ecclesiastes. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity, 1985.

LaSor, William Sanford, David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic William Bush. Old Testament Survey. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Longman, Tremper, III, and Raymond B. Dillard. An Introduction to the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.

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Matthews, Victor H., and James C. Moyer. The Old Testament: Text and Context. 2d edition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.

Merrill, Eugene H. An Historical Survey of the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

Merrill, Eugene H. Kingdom of Priests. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.

Schultz, Samuel J. The Old Testament Speaks. 5d ed. New York: HarperOne, 1999.

VanGemeren, Willem. Interpreting the Prophetic Word. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.

Wegner, Paul D. The Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1999.

Wood, Leon. A Survey of Israel's History. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986.

Yamauchi, Edwin M. Persia and the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990.

Young, Edward J. An Introduction to the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964.