Assignment for first class: 

• Bring a Bible to class – any translation is fine as long as it is in English 

• Read the “The Infancy Gospel of James” (copies were sent to you).

• Read Paul’s Letter Collection

Assignments for second class:

• Work on your projects.

• For our next meeting on January 5-6:
  Please try to memorize the following text (NRSV). We will use it for an exercise in "midrash". I know, memorizing is a hard thing to do as we
  grow older, but do your best:
  
  John 8:2-11
  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.
  
  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him.
  
  Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
  
  When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."
  

New Testament Studies

Instructor:  Dr. David Trobisch

Throckmorton – Hayes Professor of New Testament Language and Literature

Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor & Portland, Maine

UCC Iowa Center LEARN program

November 3-4  and January 4-5, 2007

Email: dtrobisch@bts.edu // Class web site will be posted at www.bts.edu/trobisch  

For more information contact Lee Hood [Lee@ucciaconf.org]

Dr. David Trobisch is a specialist on the letters of Paul, the formation of the Christian Bible, and New Testament manuscripts. Born in Cameroon, West Africa, he grew up in Austria and pursued his academic studies in Germany. He taught at the University of Heidelberg, Missouri State University, Yale Divinity School and is presently the Throckmorton-Hayes Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine. His Publications include Paul’s Collection of Letters (1994), The First Edition of the New Testament (2000) and a children’s book about growing up in Africa, The Adventures of Pumpelhoober (2000).  

Assignment for first class: 

• Bring a Bible to class – any translation is fine as long as it is in English 

• Read the “The Infancy Gospel of James” (copies were sent to you).

• Read Paul’s Letter Collection

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