Salvation in the Bible (BS3009W)

Content

This unit surveys various models of salvation in the Bible: exodus narratives, return from exile, social and ecological dimensions of eschatology and prophecy, messianism, reconciliation, atonement and resurrection. Key biblical texts will be examined in relation to their cultural and historical contexts, with attention also being given to the hermeneutical relationships between selected biblical models and systematic theology

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Introductory unit in NT (BN1001W or equivalent) and in OT (BA1001W or equivalent)

Pedagogy

lectures, discussion, tutorials

Indicative Bibliography

• Avery-Peck, Alan J and Jacob Neusner, eds. Judaism in Late antiquity Part 4: Death, life-after-death, resurrection and the world to come in the Judaism of antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
• Campbell, Constantine R. Paul and Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.
• Colijn, B. Images of Salvation in the New Testament. Downers Grove: IVP, 2010.
• Charlesworth, James, ed. The Messiah, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1992.
• Finlan, S. Options on Atonement in Christian Thought. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2007.
• Gowan, Donald. Eschatology in the Old Testament. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2nd ed. 2000.
• Green, Joel B. Salvation. St Louis: Chalice, 2003.
• Habel, Norman C. and Peter Trudinger, eds. Exploring ecological hermeneutics. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008
• Levenson, J.D., Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Ngwa, Kenneth Numfor. Let My People Live : An Africana Reading of Exodus. First edition. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2022.
• Rillera, Andrew Remington. Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’ Death. Eugene. Wipf & Stock, 2024.
• van der Watt, Jan G, ed. Salvation in the New Testament: Perspectives on soteriology. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Assessment