Explore the Bible through the Yale Bible Study program featuring current and former Yale Divinity School faculty.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Exodus: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Joel S. Baden, Session 1, January 10, 2022.
The Exodus is the central event for the Hebrew Bible, and for Israel’s identity. The episodes that make up this story – the enslavement of Israel, the call of Moses, the plagues, the crossing of the sea, Sinai, the Ten Commandments, the golden calf – are well known, but not always well understood. In these six sessions we will explore the Exodus – historically, literarily, theologically – and think together about where these stories come from, and how they have been used over time and across cultures.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Light They Shed on Judaism and Christianity with Dr. John Collins, Session 2, December 13, 2021.
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Light They Shed on Judaism and Christianity with Dr. John Collins, Session 1, December 6, 2021.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is widely regarded as the most important contribution of archeology to Biblical Studies in the twentieth century. The first lecture will ask, what are the Dead Sea Scrolls, who collected them? Are they the product of a marginal sect or representative of Judaism in the time of Jesus. The second lecture will consider some texts found in the Scrolls that are of special interest for Christianity, including one that speaks of a figure who is called Son of God.
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 6, October 26, 2001.
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 5, October 19, 2001.
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 4, October 12, 2001.
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 3, October 5, 2001.
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 2, September 28, 2001.
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
The Gospel of John: An Online Bible Study with Dr. Harold Attridge, Session 1, September 21, 2001.
The Gospel of John tells a distinctive story of Jesus. Its poetic prologue sets the stage with allusions to God's act of creation and to the revelation of the Law to Moses. The evangelist claims that the Word of God, enfleshed in Jesus, is part of the first action and offers something that the Torah could not do. It defines that gift as "birth" from God available to all who believe. The story unfolds as a series of dramatic encounters that challenge readers to reflect on their own life giving encounters with Jesus. Richly suggestive images embellish the story which delights in irony, all of which aims to train readers to "see" the truth to which Jesus witnesses. The course will explore the Gospel's narrative strategy, probe the larger theological issues that it raises, and reflect on the process of the Gospel’s development and its engagement with the intellectual and cultural context of its first century audience.
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Paul's Letter to the Philippians with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton, Session 4, August 4, 2021.