The stories in the Hebrew Bible are frequently irreverent, and its authors delighted in ambiguity, wordplay, and ambivalence. But the text has often been badly served by its translators so that these literary undercurrents are lost. Recovering the Bible's original aesthetic force requires us to attune ourselves to its voice and learn how biblical narrative differs from the narrative styles we are accustomed to. We will survey a range of biblical texts, discussing their internal themes and their literary style with an eye to discovering what these stories meant to the Israelites who first told them.
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The dates for 2025-26 are:
October 22, 2025
October 29, 2025
November 5, 2025
November 12, 2025
November 19, 2025
December 3, 2025
December 10, 2025
December 17, 2025
January 7, 2026
January 14, 2026