THE BIBLE ON FILM

SYLLABUS

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REQUIREMENTS

I. Readings

1. From The Bible (King James Version) You can use a different version, but the King James is the one most commonly quoted.

This website claims to offer a free King James version.

Click here to find on line versions of The Holy Bible in many different languages and translations.

From the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, Judges 13-16

From the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Revelations

2. Two books from the following list

Baugh, Lloyd 1997 Imaging the Divine: A History of Jesus on the Screen Citadel Press, NY

Blake, Richard Aloysius 2000 Afterimage : The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers Loyola Press

Forshey, Gerald E. 1992 American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars God in the Movies : A Sociological Investigation Greenwood Publishing Westport CT.

Greeley, Andrew M., Albert J. Bergesen 2003 (orig. 2000) God in the Movies : A Sociological Investigation Transaction Publishers Somerset, NJ

Kinnard, Roy and Tim Davis 1992 Divine Images: A History of Jesus on the Screen Citadel Press, NY

Stern, Richard C. Clayton Jefford and Guerric Debona 1999 Saviour on the Silver Screen Paulist Press, Mahwah

Tatum, W. Barnes 1997 Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First 100 Years Polebridge Press Weststar Inst. Santa Rosa

 3. (optional) Bell, Jim and Campbell, Stan (1999) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible Alpha Books, A Division of Macmillan Press, NY

4. If you are interested in further biblical materials you should get a concordance, biblical dictionary, atlas and a "Who's who in The Bible". Here are some suggestions

Barker, William P. 1966 Everyone in the Bible Fleming H. Revell Co. Westwood, NJ

Calvovoressi, Peter 1999 Who's Who in the Bible Penguin Books, NY

Gardner, Joseph L. 1981 Reader's Digest Atlas of the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY

Porter, J.R. 1995 The Illustrated Guide to the Bible Oxford University Press, NY

Pritchard, James B. (ed) 1991 The Harper Concise Atlas of the Bible Harper Collins, New York

Rowley, Harold H. 1969 New Atlas of the Bible Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY

Selamn, Martin J. and Martin H. Manser 1998 The Hearthside Bible Dictionary Macmillan Publishers.Nashville, Tenn.

Wigoder, Geoffrey 1986 Illustrated Dictionay & Concordance of the Bible G.G. The Jerusalem Publishing House Ltd. Jerusalem

 5. Some other books that may be of interest:

Carson, D.A.( 1996) Exegetical Fallacies (2nd edition) Baker Books Grand Rapids, MI

Ginzberg, Louis 1956 (orig 1909) Legends of The Bible Konecky & Konecky, Old Saybrook, CT.

Graves, Robert and Raphael Patai Hebrew Myths,: The Book of Genesis Doubleday and Co. Garden City, NY

Mitchell, Stephen (1996) Genesis: A New Translatioin of the Classical Biblical Stories Harper Collins, NY

 II. Museum Trip At some point during the term you should visit the Cloisters, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More information about this will follow.

III. The Class Meetings

The class meetings are scheduled roughly from 10 a.m. -2:00 pm. on Tuesday, Wed. Thurs. Unfortunately many of the films are quite long and will run longer that the scheduled period so you should pplan to be there later than 2:00. The class may run fewer days because of these additional times added on to the hours.
The Film Department has a policy of failing any student who has more than two absences in any term. The policy is in effect over the summer. Any student coming more than 15 minutes late, or leaving more than 15 minutes early will be counted as absent.

IV. Papers and Exams

Term paper: A paper examining a biblical film. More information on the paper will follow.

Final exam.

 V. General Rules in Class

Turn off all cell phones, pagers or whatever you have that makes noise. Any cell phone that goes off during the class will result in a loss of points from your final average.

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