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Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School, and Victoria Hoffer, Yale Divinity School
9:00 – 11:30 AM, June 15-19
$325
Might a concern for the environment and a faithful understanding of
our relationship to the natural order be enriched by a study of texts? Our summer seminar works from this premise: We have much to learn from the way the Hebrew Bible presents God’s creation of the heavens and the earth, as well as from poets who have made the “work of God’s hand” the subject of devoted attention and celebration. Our time each morning will be divided roughly in half. We will begin with a study of passages drawn from Genesis, Job, Isaiah, the Song of Songs, and the Psalms. After a mid-morning break, we will then turn to the analysis of poets whose work is nurtured by biblical notions of the created order, e.g. Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver. The class will be a mixture of faculty presentation and seminar-style discussion.
Schedule for the course:
- Monday: Genesis 1 and 2 and Milton, Paradise Lost, book 7
- Tuesday: Psalms and poetry by Jacqueline Osherow
- Wednesday: Prophets and poetry by Wendell Berry
- Thursday: Job and poetry by Mary Oliver
- Friday: Song of Songs and poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Biblical texts for the week:
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Monday: Genesis 1 and 2
Milton, Paradise Lost, book 7 (text below)
- Tuesday: Psalms 8, 19, 104, 114, 121, 136, 150 (especially those in italics).Poetry by Jacqueline Osherow (texts below)
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Wednesday: Isaiah 40, Joel; (esp. ch. 2), Nahum (esp. 1:1-18), Amos (esp. ch 4) Poetry by Wendell Berry (texts below)
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Thursday: Job 3, 10, 38-41
Poetry by Mary Oliver (texts below)
- Friday: Song of Songs and Genesis 3
poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins (texts below)
Class resources (pdf format):
Syllabus
Milton’s (1667, 1674) “Re-vision” of Genesis 1: Paradise Lost VII
Creation Hopkins
Creation Berry
Creation Osherow
Creation Oliver
Questions? Call 203-432-9526
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