1. Vetenskapsteori och metod, 7,5 hp

Se separat kursplan.

2. Centrala texter i Gamla testamentet, 7,5 hp

Bibeltexter: 1 Mos; 2 Mos 1-4, 14-15; Jes 1-11, 40-55; Psalt 1, 13, 19, 22, 23, 30, 96, 103, 104, 110, 118, 130.

• Meyers, Carol L., Exodus, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005Obligatorisk* (I urval.)
• The Women's Bible commentary, London, SPCK ; a Louisville, 1992Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Westermann, Claus, Genesis, Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 1988Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Isaiah 40-55: a new translation with introduction and commentary, 1. ed., New York, Doubleday, 2002Obligatorisk* ((i urval) Kopia finns att köpa på Teologiska institutionen.)
• Clements, Ronald Ernest, Isaiah 1-39, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1980Obligatorisk* ((i urval) Kopia finns att köpa på Teologiska institutionen.)
• Ringgren, Helmer, Psaltaren 1-41, Uppsala, EFS-förl., 1987Obligatorisk* (i urval)

3. Centrala texter i Nya testamentet, 7,5 hp

Bibeltexter: Matteusevangeliet; Johannesevangeliet; Galaterbrevet.

• Fornberg, Tord, Matteusevangeliet 1:1-13:52, Uppsala, EFS-förl., 1989Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Fornberg, Tord, Matteusevangeliet 13:53-28:20, Stockholm, EFS-förl., 1999Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Kieffer, René, Johannesevangeliet 1-10, Uppsala, EFS-förl., 1987Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Stanton, G. N., Galatians, Ingår i: The Oxford Bible commentary, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2001, s. 1152–1165Obligatorisk*

4. Temakurs, 7,5 hp

Litteraturen varierar beroende på vilket tema som delkursen behandlar. För närmare information om litteraturen på aktuell temakurs hänvisas till separat kursplan.

5. Litteraturkurs, 7,5 hp

Ett av följande litteraturpaket väljs:

A. Israels historia och religion

• Albertz, Rainer, A history of Israelite religion in the Old Testament period, London, SCM Press, 1994Obligatorisk* (Volume 1 + 2 (672 s.))
• Bird, Phyllis A., Missing persons and mistaken identities: women and gender in ancient Israel., Minneapolis, Minn., Fortress Press, 1997Obligatorisk*
• Finkelstein, Israel; Mazar, Amihay, The quest for the historical Israel: debating archaeology and the history of early Israel: invited lectures delivered at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Detroit, October 2005, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007Obligatorisk*

B. Berättande texter: Bibeln som litteratur

Bibeltexter: Genesis, Samuelsböckerna

• Exum, J. Cheryl, Tragedy and biblical narrative: arrows of the Almighty, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992Obligatorisk*
• Fokkelman, Jan, Narrative Art in Genesis: Specimens of Stylistic and Structural Analysis, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004Obligatorisk* (260 s)
• Fewell, Danna Nolan; Gunn, David M., Gender, power, and promise: the subject of the Bible's first story, Nashville, Abingdon Press, cop. 1993Obligatorisk*
• Turner, Laurence, Genesis, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009Obligatorisk* (246 s)

Ytterligare artiklar och/eller kommentarlitteratur enligt lärares anvisning.

C. Den historiske Jesus

• Fredriksen, Paula, Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews: a Jewish life and the emergence of Christianity, London, Macmillan, 2000, cop. 1999Obligatorisk*
• Witherington, Ben, The Jesus quest: the third search for the Jew of Nazareth, 2nd ed., Downers Grove, Ill., InterVarsity Press, c1997Obligatorisk*
• Ehrman, Bart D., Jesus: apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999Obligatorisk*
• Gardell, Jonas, Om Jesus, Stockholm, Norstedt, 2009Obligatorisk*

D. Paulus och hans teologi

• Bornkamm, Günther, Paul., 1st Fortress Press ed., Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1995Obligatorisk*
• Osiek, Carolyn; MacDonald, Margaret Y.; Tulloch, Janet H., A woman's place: house churches in earliest Christianity, Philadelphia, Pa., Fortress Press, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Dunn, James D. G., The new perspective on Paul, Rev. ed., Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans Pub Co., 2008Obligatorisk*

* Obligatorisk