Hosted by Professor Ralph Klein
Tuesdays, October 27th thru November 10th (3 weeks) from 7 to 8 pm

About the Class: The Bible was written more than two thousand years ago and is the backbone of the faith we all share and live. But how do we read it responsibly as men and women of the twenty-first century? How do we discover what it meant back then and what it might mean today? How did the Bible emerge from individual authors and  become the Bible? How do we recognize that the Bible was written in a rural culture and we live in a metropolitan culture? The presuppositions of the authors are quite different from our own about history, science, the relationship between men and women, and about sexuality. Is there a specific way that Lutherans read the Bible?

October 27th: General Overview
November 3rd: Dealing with the Patriarchy of the Bible
November 10th: What Does the Bible Say and Not Say About Homosexuality?
 

About the Teacher: Ralph W. Klein is Christ Seminary-Seminex professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC). A member of the faculty since 1983, Klein served as Dean from 1988-99 and again in the spring semester of 2005. Prior to joining the Seminary's faculty he was professor and chair of the department of exegetical theology at Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis, Mo.; assistant professor at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; and an instructor at Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1998, he was a guest professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School.