Fall 2016/Fuller Online

NT500

Young

NT500: NEW TESTAMENT INTRODUCTION [Introducción al Nuevo Testamento] (4 Units: 160 hours). Stephen E. Young.

DESCRIPTION: New Testament Introduction orients students to the literature of the New Testament in its various literary, historical, and theological contexts and to New Testament interpretation in service of Christian practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Having successfully completed this course, students will have demonstrated that they (1) have an introductory knowledge of the literature, history, and theology of the New Testament; (2) can identify a range of questions (e.g., historical, literary, canonical) that might be addressed to particular New Testament texts and explore those questions in the process of interpreting particular New Testament texts; (3) are able to take into account the varied contexts of both the biblical materials and their contemporary interpreters; and (4) can read the New Testament in ways that foster faithful Christian practice.

COURSE FORMAT: This course, taught in Spanish, will be conducted online on a ten-week schedule aligned with Fuller’s academic calendar for a total of 40 instructional hours, which is outlined below in the assignment and assessment section. Students are required to interact with the material, with each other, and with the instructor regularly through online discussions, reading, and other assignments that promote active learning.

REQUIRED READING: 1,415 total pages of books and articles required (includes reading the entire NT).

The entire NT in Spanish (using the NVI, LBLA or NBJ) [283 pp. assigned].

Brown, R. E. Introducción al Nuevo Testamento. 2 vols.Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2002. ISBN 978-8481645378. $76.00 [790 pp. assigned].

Rosell Nebreda, Sergio. La nueva identidad de los cristianos: El himno a Cristo en la Carta a los Filipenses. Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos Minor 15. Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 2010. ISBN 978-8430117482. $14.95 [121 pp. assigned].

Articles will also be required, by René Krüger, Mercedes Lópes and Carlos Mesters, Néstor O. Míguez, Marcia R. Moya and Helmut Renard, Daniel Sánchez Pereira, and Elsa Tamez, available on eReserves. [87 total pp.].

Posted lectures online [135 pp. assigned].

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

  1. REQUIRED readings (1,416 total pages assigned) [94 hours].

  2. 400-word weekly forum initial posts and 200-word weekly forum replies on NT texts, required readings, and interpretive working papers (20%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1-4] [22 hours]
  3. Two Interpretive Working Papers [2 papers; 1,350 words each, or about 2 pages single-spaced] (35%; 15% for the first, 20% for the second; for assessment purposes, the second IWP will be designated as an 'interpretive assignment'). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #2-4.] [12 hours preparation and writing].

  4. A book review on Rosell Nebreda, La nueva identidad de los cristianos (1,200-1,500 words, or 3-4 pages one-and-a-half spaced) (20%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes # 1, 3.] [14 hours].

  5. FINAL research paper on an assigned NT passage (1,500 words, or 5-6 pages one-and-a-half spaced) (25%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes # 2-4.] [18 hours research and writing].

PREREQUISITES: Spanish.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets a core requirement in the 120 MDiv, 80 MAT, 80 MATM, and 80 MAICS Programs (Fall 2015) and the MATM, MAICS, and MACL Programs (Winter 2010).

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.


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