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

  1. Yee, Gale A. Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
  2. Anderson, Janice Capel, and Stephen D Moore. Mark & Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
  3. Amit, Yaira. The Book of Judges: The Art of Editing. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1999.
  4. Bal, Mieke. Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988.
  5. Bal, Mieke. Murder and Difference Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera’s Death. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
  6. Bluedorn, Wolfgang. Yahweh Versus Baalism: a Theological Reading of the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
  7. Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Judges (Second Series). Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.  
  8. Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997
  9. Brettler, Marc Zvi. The Book of Judges. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
  10. Crenshaw, James L. Samson: a Secret Betrayed, a Vow Ignored. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1978.
  11. 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.
  12. Exum, J. Cheryl. “The Centre Cannot Hold: Thematic and Textual Instabilities in Judges’. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52:410-31.
  13. Gunn, David M, and Danna Nolan Fewell. Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  14. Guillaume, Philippe. Waiting for Josiah: The Judges. London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2004.
  15. Kim, Jichan. “The Structure of the Samson Cycle”. Kampen: Kok Pharos Pub. House, 1993.
  16. Klein, Lillian R. The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1988.
  17. 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。
  18. 張慕皚。《士師記—亂世中的拯救》。香港: 天道書樓,2000。