C-19 Eternal Echoes—Reading the Bible as Literature
- Rabbi Nicolas Behrmann *
- Wednesday: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28; 10-noon
- 4 sessions: $28
As a literary work, the Bible contains accounts of our human struggle for life's meaning. Echoes of these accounts have influenced the human creative spirit and have found expression in poetry, novels, plays, paintings, sculpture and other media. This class will approach the Bible as a literary anthology of human experience using the creation myth in Genesis, the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis, the Book of Jonah, and the Book of Ruth. We will examine these stories as literature and as history and discuss the ways they have reverberated in the human experience.
Nicolas Behrmann is an ordained rabbi with degrees from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. As an educator, counselor and preacher, he has devoted a lifetime to listening to and discussing these eternal echoes.
* new to Renesan