journal

any one can do the journal

  

The due 

today 8:30 pm

  

Name________________________________ Score ______/20

REL 2040: Great Books: The Bible and Western Culture

Fall 2013

Dr. Peter Bekins

Class Journal 4. This journal is designed to help you synthesize the content of the class lectures and

also provide me with feedback. The journal is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 19.

Week 10 The Dawn of Apocalypse

Tue Oct 29. Re-read the “Book of the Watchers (Enoch 6-11)” (on Pilot). What was your overall

impression of this story? Do you think that the ancient audience treated this as literature or as history?

Why don’t you think Enoch was included in the Bible?

Thu Oct 31. Re-read the visions in Daniel 7-12. Define ex eventu prophecy and explain why scholars

have concluded that these visions are ex eventu prophecies from the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Minute Summary. What is the weirdest story we read this week?

Week 11 The New Testament

Tue Nov 5. Re-read the resurrection stories in Matthew 28, Mark 16:1-8, Luke 24, and John 20. In what

ways do these accounts differ from each other? Why do you think that the four were never combined

into a single account like we saw with the creation and flood stories in Genesis?

Thu Nov 7. Briefly explain the “quest for the Historical Jesus.” Why don’t scholars believe that the

gospels give a precise historical account of Jesus’ life and teachings? Which of the views presented in

class do you find most convincing?

Minute summary. What idea was most confusing this week?

Week 12 Paul and His Letters

Tue Nov 12. Re-read Galatians 1-2 and Acts 15:1-21. Contrast the way that these two texts portray Paul.

Who do you think was more responsible for the trouble: the Jerusalem Church (Peter, James, and John)

or Paul?

Thu Nov 14. Summarize Paul’s ideas about the law and faith. What is the importance of faith to Paul and

what is the role of ethics within his community?

Minute summary. What idea was most interesting this week?

Name________________________________

Score ______/20

REL 2040: Great Books: The Bible and Western Culture

Fall 2013

Dr. Peter Bekins

Class Journal 4.
This journal is designed to help you synthesize the content of the class lectures and

also provide me with feedback. The journal is due at the beginning of class on
Tuesday, November 19
.

Week 10 The Dawn of Apocalypse

Tue Oct 29
. Re
–
read the
“
Book of the Watchers (Enoch 6
–
11)
”

(on Pilot). What was your overall

impression of this story? Do y
ou think that the ancient audience treated this as literature or as history?

Why don
’
t you think Enoch was included in the Bible?

Thu Oct 31
. Re
–
read the visions in Daniel 7
–
12. Define
ex eventu
prophecy and explain why scholars

have concluded that these v
isions are
ex eventu
prophecies from the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Minute Summary
. What is the we
irdest story we read this week?

Name________________________________ Score ______/20

REL 2040: Great Books: The Bible and Western Culture
Fall 2013
Dr. Peter Bekins

Class Journal 4. This journal is designed to help you synthesize the content of the class lectures and
also provide me with feedback. The journal is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 19.

Week 10 The Dawn of Apocalypse
Tue Oct 29. Re-read the “Book of the Watchers (Enoch 6-11)” (on Pilot). What was your overall
impression of this story? Do you think that the ancient audience treated this as literature or as history?
Why don’t you think Enoch was included in the Bible?

Thu Oct 31. Re-read the visions in Daniel 7-12. Define ex eventu prophecy and explain why scholars
have concluded that these visions are ex eventu prophecies from the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Minute Summary. What is the weirdest story we read this week?