一）課程內容
歷史的記載多以國家大事重要戰蹟為主幹，讀者注意力也多只是集中在民族英雄、政治領袖、軍事奇才等人物的事蹟上。動亂時代的平民百姓往往在我們的記憶中只是大人物的小配角。他們的困苦，他們的眼淚好像只是用作突出襯托那些英雄人物轟烈的成就。士師記時期是以色列人在進入迦南地後，而王國尚未建立前的一段紛亂日子。平民百姓在這轉變不穩定的時代受盡敵國侵略欺壓和內戰的困擾。本課程嘗試從這些小人物的角度重新研讀這段歷史故事，體驗他們在歷史轉動下的無奈，感受他們對神的盼望。
二）課程目標
嘗試藉新詮釋學研究方法，讓學員認識士師記的小人物事蹟，並從中反省今日信徒在變動時代生活應有的態度。
三）課程大綱：
1. 三個敵對的母親 1-5 章
2. 膽小的拯救者 6-9 章
3. 妓女的孫女 10-12 章
4. 被撕裂的小山羊 13-16 章
5. 作小偷的祭司 17-18 章
6. 發脾氣的妾侍 19-21 章
四）功課要求
1. 閱讀士師記 (五次) (5小時)
2. 閱讀參考資料 (300頁) (10小時)
3. 專文 (6000字) (請在專文最後一頁列出完成士師記及參考資料的閱讀) 100% (35小時)
五）參考書目
- Yee, Gale A. Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
- Anderson, Janice Capel, and Stephen D Moore. Mark & Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
- Amit, Yaira. The Book of Judges: The Art of Editing. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1999.
- Bal, Mieke. Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988.
- Bal, Mieke. Murder and Difference Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera’s Death. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
- Bluedorn, Wolfgang. Yahweh Versus Baalism: a Theological Reading of the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
- Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Judges (Second Series). Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
- Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997
- Brettler, Marc Zvi. The Book of Judges. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Crenshaw, James L. Samson: a Secret Betrayed, a Vow Ignored. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1978.
- Echols, Charles L. “Tell Me, o Muse”: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry. New York: T & T Clark International, 2008.
- Exum, J. Cheryl. “The Centre Cannot Hold: Thematic and Textual Instabilities in Judges’. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52:410-31.
- Gunn, David M, and Danna Nolan Fewell. Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Guillaume, Philippe. Waiting for Josiah: The Judges. London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2004.
- Kim, Jichan. “The Structure of the Samson Cycle”. Kampen: Kok Pharos Pub. House, 1993.
- Klein, Lillian R. The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1988.
- 黃福光著；張群娣譯。《士師記—立於動亂中的根基（附研習本）》。香港：明道社，2019。
- 張慕皚。《士師記—亂世中的拯救》。香港： 天道書樓，2000。