Module Details
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Title EGYPT AND THE BIBLE: LITERATURE
Code CEPD5028
Coordinator Dr CG Jones
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
C.G.Jones2@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2021-22 Level 4 FHEQ Continuing Education Session 10

Aims

To identify and evaluate the connections between material in the Bible and the literary record from ancient Egypt.

To explore ancient Egyptian narrative, poetry, wisdom teaching and prophecy.

To evaluate the contrasting scholarship on the Bible an ancient Egypt's literary record.

To encourage and facilitate the sharing of ideas and insight.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will be able to identify and evaluate the connections between the Bible and the literary record from ancient Egypt.

(LO2) Students will acquire an introductory understanding of ancient Egyptian narrative, poetry, wisdom teaching and prophecy.

(LO3) Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate the contrasting viewpoints and scholarship on the Bible and ancient Egypt's literary record.

(S1) Lifelong learning skills

(S2) Communication skills

Syllabus
 

1. Creation stories from Egypt and the Bible.

2. Words of the Wise: Egyptian Wisdom & the Book of Proverbs.

3.  Words of the Wise: Egyptian Wisdom & Job and Ecclesiastes.

4.  Songs of Praise: Egyptian Worship and the Book of Psalm.s

5.  Travelers' Tales: Sinuhe, Shipwrecked Sailor,Jonah.

6.  The Prophets & Egypt: Isaiah and Jeremiah.

7.  The Prophets and Egypt: Ezekiel and Daniel.

8.  Between the Testaments: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha & the Hellenistic world.

9.  Roman Egypt and the literature of the New Testament.

10. Egypt and the Bible: A reassessment.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description: Interactive, tutor-led lecture.
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 2 - Group-work
Description: Group work in class, for example examining particular sources or questions.
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Self-Directed Learning Description: Completing set reading and tasks; research and writing of assessed essay.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 10

         10

 20
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 80
TOTAL HOURS 100

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Essay There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1  c 2500 words    100       

Recommended Texts
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