James and Cross-cultural
Wisdoms (12-621)
Mon 12:45-3:45, Jan
29-May 2, 2007
Instructor: Yeo
Khiok-khng (K.K.), PhD
Tel: 847.674-3135 (home)
E-mail: kkyeo@garrett.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.garrett.edu/content.asp?C=1080&instructorid=101582
A. Course Description
A
selected study of the book of James, focusing on its literary and theological
readings, experimenting with various hermeneutical theories of rhetoric and
intertextuality on cross-cultural wisdoms (such as ancient Jewish, Greco-Roman,
Chinese, Islamic, African-American, etc.). Attention will be given to the history of scholarly
discussion as well as to issues in modern hermeneutics through both traditional
historical-critical and modern methodologies.
The main teachings and
especially the theological themes found in James will be explored. They will
then be interpreted to address modern issues (such as rich and poor, justice
and piety, healing and reconciliation, sin and salvation, anthropology and
ethics, etc).
B.
Assignments and Textbooks
The course will be
conducted mainly in seminars, beginning with short lecture and proceed with
class discussion on wisdom traditions in various cultures. Besides reading the assigned material,
each student is asked to lead one class session of their choice.
The
second assignment is to encourage the development of a major exegetical and
hermeneutical skills with the biblical material, the paper is due May 7, 2007 (graduating
senior the deadline is
much earlier). The paper is limited to 10 single-spaced pages, with the
following two sections: exegetical or theological interpretation of a
text/motif, and intertextual reading of such text/theme with an extra-biblical
wisdom tradition/text/theme or with a modern issue.
Textbooks:
A. Required/Main Texts:
1.
Rad, Gerhard von. Wisdom in Israel. Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1972.
2.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Anchor Bible. The Letter of James. New York: Doubleday,
1995.
3.
Bauckham, Richard. James, Wisdom of James, Disciple of Jesus
the Sage. London: Routledge, 1999. No purchase necessary, available as
electronic text at NUCat if you have NetID and password: http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=14&ti=1,14&SC=Author&SA=Bauckham%2C%20Richard%2E&PID=5085&SEQ=20060331163844&SID=2
B.
Supplemental Texts:
1. Johnson, Luke Timothy. Brother of
Jesus, Friend of God: Studies in the Letter of James. Eerdmans, 2004.
2. Tamez, Elsa. The Scandalous
Message of James: Faith Without Works is Dead. Trans. John Eagleson. New York: Crossroad, 2002.
3. Reserved Folder of articles at
United Library (Garrett side)
C. Class Schedule
and Assignments
Reading: Johnson, 89-120
Reading: Johnson, 1-25, 124-164
Supplement: Cheung, Luke L. The
Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James. Waynesboro: Paternoster Press, 2003:
R.B. Crotty, The Literary Structure of the Letter of James, AusBibRev 40 (1992), 45-57; T.C. Penner, The
Epistle of James in Current Research, CurrResBibStud 7 (1999), 257-308.
Reading: Johnson, 29-33; von Rad, Wisdom in Israel, 1-185.
V.K.
Robbins, Making Christian Culture in the Epistle of James, Scriptura 59 (1996), 341-351; W. Popkes,
James and Scripture: An Exercise in Intertextuality, NTStud 45 (2, 1999), 213-229;
Supplemental: W. Popkes, The Composition of James and
Intertextuality: An Exercise in Methodology, StudTheol 51 (2, 1997), 91-112.
Reading: Johnson, 34-45; von Rad, Wisdom
in Israel,
186-320.
Reading: Johnson, 27-28, 66-88; Yeo, Rhetorical
Interaction,
Chapter Three (pp. 15-49).
Supplemental: L. Thurn, Risky Rhetoric in James? NovTest 37 (3, 1995), 262-284; Ong, S.H. A Strategy for a Metaphorical Reading of the
Epistle of James. Lanham: University Press
of America, 1996; Hartin, P.J., A Spirituality of Perfection. Faith
in Action in the Letter of James. MN: Liturgical Press, 1999; Smith, John Lorel. Form in Relationship to Function: The
Literary Genre of the Epistle of James in Light of Greco-Roman Literary
Studies. MTS Thesis, Garrett-Evangelical, 1998.
Reading: Johnson, 48-63; 167-216.
Supplemental: Wachob, Wesley Hiram. The Voice of Jesus in the Social
Rhetoric of James. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000; Jackson-McCabe, Matt A. Logos and Law in the
Letter of James: The Law of Nature, the Law of Moses, and the Law of Freedom. Leiden: Brill, 2001; D.J.
Verseput, James 1:17 and the Jewish Morning Prayers, Novum Testamentum 39(2, 1997): 177-191.
Reading: Johnson, 217-266; Tamez, Elsa. The Scandalous Message of James: Faith
Without Works is Dead. Trans. John
Eagleson. New York: Crossroad, 2002.
Supplement: Edgar, David
Hutchinson. Has God not Chosen the Poor?: The Social Setting of the Epistle
of James. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 2001; Kiekegaard, Fear and Trembling; Baker,
William R. Personal Speech-ethics in the Epistle of James. Tbingen: Mohr, 1995.
Supplement: P.J.
Hartin, Who is Wise and Understanding Among You (Jas 3:13)? An Analysis of
Wisdom, Eschatology and Apocalypticism in the Epistle of James, HervTeolStud 53 (4, 1997): 969-999; Penner. Todd C. The Epistle of
James and Eschatology: Re-reading an Ancient Christian Letter. Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1996
Reading: Johnson, 311-347
Supplement: M.C. Albi, Are Any among You Sick? The
Health Care System in the Letter of James, JBL 121 (1, 2002), 123-143; J.H.
Elliott, The Epistle of James in Rhetorical and Social Scientific Perspective:
Holiness-Wholeness and Patterns of Replication, BibTheolBull 23 (2, 1993), 71-81.
Reading: Bauckham, James,
Wisdom of James, Disciple of Jesus the Sage.
D. Grade Summary (based on 400 points and 4-point
scale)
Class
Participation 60
Leading
class session 140
Term
paper 200
Total: 400
Expectations:
1.
Attendance is expected. Absence or tardiness will result in drop of one full
letter grade.
2.
All assignments submitted in order to get a passing grade.
3.
Papers will be graded based on the following criteria: (a) consistent and
proper style/documentation; (b) clear and succinct writing/expression; (c)
ability to do research and use scholarly material; (d) coherent and convincing
content as well as argumentation and exegetical steps; (e) relevant and
creative hermeneutics.
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