(3 semester hours)
After completing this course, students will be able to describe the principles
of sound exegesis, and will have applied these principles to the study
of selected texts from at least three different Old Testament genres.
They will be able to describe the basic issues in Old Testament textual
criticism and have had experience in recognizing, describing, and choosing
between, alternative exegetical interpretations. They will have exegeted
a short Old Testament book, or, in the case of longer books, a discourse
unit comprising several chapters of a book).