BIB 626 Qur'anic Narrative
This course will consist of readings in qur'anic narrative on familiar themes (the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, the Burning Bush, Exodus, the Golden Calf, etc.). We will read some of these narratives in tandem with Jewish and Christian parallels from the Tanakh, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha and Midrash. The purpose of the course is to gain deeper insight into some of the classic themes of the scriptural monotheisms through a comparative methodology that will highlight the qur'anic approach to narrative in relation to its antecedents.