BHI 614 Wilderness Narratives
This course will study those passages that contain stories about the wilderness sojourn in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, from Exodus 15:22 through the Death of Moses (Nu 27). Some passages elsewhere in Tanakh that relate to these episodes will also be studied. This course will also be used to further sensitivity to aspects of "Stylistics," or style analysis. This area of study is sometimes the focus of courses in historical philology and even literary criticism, when critical discourse analysis is integrated.