Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
Have a good Knowledge of the theological ideas of the Old Testament
Follow their development in time and by groups of books
Have exercised their theological thought on the basis of the theological data in synchronic and diachronic approach
Study contemporary theological issues
Understand the theology of creation and aspects of its application
Course Content (Syllabus)
Systematic presentation and analysis of the basic theological ideas and issues of the Old Testament that refer to the theology, anthropology, christology, soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology of the Old Testament’s divine revelation. The aim is to get students acquainted to the theological thought of the Old Testament, the theological questions and religious conceptions of the world by ancient Israel and other cultures of the time, and their relation the theology of the New Testament and the dogmatic theology of the Church.
Teaching schedule:
1. Introduction. Course description. Basic terminology
2. History of the Old Testament Theology. Issues in modern research and scholarly debate
3. Cosmology. Creation of the universe in six days (I); Introductory; 1:1-2
4. Cosmology. Creation of the universe in six days (II); 1:3-2:4
5. Cosmology. Creation of the universe in six days and cosmological models of modern Physics
6. Anthropology. Creation of human beings (I); Introductory; 1:26-28
7. Anthropology. Creation of human beings (II); 2:7
8. Anthropology. Creation of human beings and modern Biology
9. Anthropology-Ecology. Man and the Paradise; 2:8-17
10. Soteriology. The fall of Adam and Eve (I); 2:18-3:7
11. Soteriology. The fall of Adam and Eve (II); 3:8-24
12. Theology. God Yahweh
13. Worship. The invocation of the name of God in ancient Jewish worship
Keywords
Old Testament Theology, Creation, Bible and Science, Cosmolgy, Anthropology, Ecology, Soteriology, Worship
Additional bibliography for study
Μπρατσιώτου Π., «Τό Γενέσεως Α΄ 26 ἐν τῇ Ὀρθοδόξῳ Θεολογίᾳ», Ὀρθοδοξία 27 (1952) 359-372.
Β. Βέλλα, Θεός και Ιστορία εν τη ισραηλιτική θρησκεία, Αθήναι 1966.
Μπρατσιώτου Ν., Ἀνθρωπολογία τῆς Παλαιᾶς Διαθήκη. Ι. Ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὡς θεῖον δημιούργημα, ἐν Ἀθήναις 1967.
Οἰκονόμου Η., «Τώβ μεώδ (=καλά λίαν). Μιά ἀξιολογική ἑρμηνεία τοῦ Α΄ κεφ. τῆς Γενέσεως», Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς 50 (1967) 40-42.
Ν. Μπρατσιώτης, Εισαγωγή εις την θεολογίαν της Π. Διαθήκης, Αθήνα 1968.
Οἰκονόμου Η., «Σύγχρονος ἀστροφυσική καί Γένεσις», Ἐκκλησία 50 (1973)109-113. 133-135.
Οἰκονόμου Η., «Σύγχρονος ἑρμηνευτική προσέγγισις τοῦ Α΄ κεφ. τῆς Γενέσεως», Ἐκκλησία 55 (1978) 196-201. 218-223. 242-249.
Δ. Δόικου, Ο χριστολογικός χαρακτήρας της θεολογίας της Π.Δ., Αναφορά εις μνήμην Σάρδεων Μαξίμου, Αθήνα 1989.
Σ. Καλαντζάκη, Καρδία καινή και πνεύμα καινόν. Οι θεολογικές ιδέες του προφήτη Ιεζεκιήλ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1994.
Δ. Καϊμάκη, Θέματα παλαιοδιαθηκικής θεολογίας, Θεσσαλονίκη 1995.
Σ. Καλαντζάκη, Ἑρμηνεία περικοπῶν τῆς Π. Διαθήκης, Θεσσαλονίκη 1999.
W. Zimmerli, Επίτομη Θεολογία της Παλιάς Διαθήκης, Αθήνα 2001.
Α. Παπαρνάκη, Η επίκληση του Ονόματος του Θεού στην Παλαιά Διαθήκη, εκδ. Πουρναρά, Θεσσαλονίκη 2006.