Syllabus for Fall Semester

Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer

Seminar Abstract

Aeschylus, Socrates and Euripides in the Greek theatre, Plato and Socrates in the agora and Virgil in Rome explore the richness of Homeric epic. The Hebrew prophets and wisdom writers develop the implications of Yahweh's actions in Genesis and Moses's lessons in Exodus. In parallel ignorance of one another, Greek and Hebrew together reveal the processes of intellectual and cultural development. This semester's look at Greek and Hebrew traditions is a first step in answering the age-old (Tertullian's) question, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?". But for us this is an open and exciting rather than rhetorical and negative question.

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