COMP 213
Reading Jesus, Writing Gospels: Christian Origins in Context Spring 2010
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed CLAS 210 / REL 210
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What were the religious and cultural landscapes in which Christianity emerged? How did inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean world speak about the concept and significance of religion? How have scholars of early Christianity answered these questions? What are the implications of their various readings of early Christian history? In the first half of this course, we shall address these questions by examining the formation of Christianity from its origins as a Jewish movement until its legalization, using a comparative socio-historical approach. In the second half of the course, we shall examine the earliest literature produced by the Jesus movement and consider it within a comparative framework developed in the first half of the course.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 19
Expected: 10
Class#: 3795
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one class presentation; three 3-page papers, one 5- to 7-page paper, and a final paper (15 pages)
Prerequisites: none; open to all classes
Enrollment Preferences: sophomores
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under REL; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under CLAS or COMP
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
CLAS 210 Division I REL 210 Division II COMP 213 Division I
Attributes: REL Christian Tradition Courses

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