NT 520 New Testament Introduction

Course Reading: Required Books Achtemeier, Paul J., Joel B. Green, and Marianne Meye Thompson, Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Message. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2001. deSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 2000. Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1995. Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1987. Veyne, Paul. The Roman Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1720/thumbnail.jp

NT 790 Christian Formation in New Testament Perspective

Dunn, James D.G. Jesus\u27 Call to Discipleship. Understanding Jesus Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Johnson, Luke Timothy. Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Longenecker, Richard N., ed. Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament. McMaster New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996. Peterson, Eugene H. Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination. San Francisco: Harper, 1988. Ryder, Andrew. Following Christ: Models of Discipleship in the New Testament. Sheed & Ward, 1999. Wilkins, Michael J. Following the Master: A Biblical Theology of Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1992. Wright, N.T. Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1725/thumbnail.jp

BS 753 The Human Person: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Brown, Warren S., Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Maloney, eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Theology and the Sciences. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Damasio, Antonio R. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt, 1999. Green, Joel B., ed. What about the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology. Nashville: Abingdon, 2004. Jeeves, Malcolm A., ed. From Cells to Souls: Changing Portraits of Human Nature. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2004.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2706/thumbnail.jp

NT 655 Faith and Wealth in New Testament Perspective

González, Justo L. Faith and Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and Use of Money. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990; reprint ed., Eugene: Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2002. Hamel, Gildas. Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries C.E. University of California Press: Near Eastern Studies 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Wheeler, Sondra Ely. Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1995.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2626/thumbnail.jp

BT 660 New Testament Theology

Course Reading — Required Fowl, Stephen, and L. Gregory Jones. Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life. Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1991. Green, Joel B., and Max Turner, eds. Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2000. One of the following two titles: Caird, G.B., with L.D. Hurst. New Testament Theology. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. Wright, N.T. The New Testament and the People of God. Christian Origins and the Question of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. One of the following three titles: Bauckham, Richard J. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Green, Joel B. The Theology of the Gospel of Luke. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1995. Lincoln, Andrew T., and A.J.M. Wedderburn. The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1993.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3860/thumbnail.jp

BS 750 The Human Person: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

(1) Brown, Warren S., Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Maloney, eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Theology and the Sciences. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Conference papers, available from the instructor. (2) Damasio, Antonio R. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt, 1999. (3) Gregersen, Niels Henrik, Willem B. Drees, and Ulf Görman, eds. The Human Person in Science and Theology. Issues in Science and Theology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2000. (4) Hasker, William. The Emergent Self. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1999. (5) Jeeves, Malcolm A. Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1997.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2220/thumbnail.jp

BT 825 Biblical Theology and Theological Hermenuetics

Course Description An exploration of the development of modern “biblical theology,” current models of engaging in the task of “biblical theology,” obstacles to a “biblical theology,” and the contemporary recovery of a theological hermeneutics in relation to the biblical theology movement.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3753/thumbnail.jp

NT 750 Research Methods in New Testament Interpretation

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the ew Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1995. Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1674/thumbnail.jp

NT 753 Research Methods in New Testament Interpretation

Course Reading—Required Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1995. Alexander, Patrick H., et al., eds. The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2910/thumbnail.jp

BS 711 Advanced Greek: Historians and Historiography

Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994. Holladay, Carl R. Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors. Vol. 1: Historians. Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations 20; Pseudepigrapha 10. Chico, California: Scholars, 1983. Lownenthal, David. The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Lucian. Available in K. Kilburn, Lucian VI. Loeb Classical Library 430. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1959 (pages 1-73). Marincola, John. Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Additional Greek texts (see the course schedule) will be available from the instructor.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1702/thumbnail.jp