Master 2 Concentration: Biblical Studies
Credits: 60
Length: 1 year (can be spread over 2 calendar years)
Degree type: MA Domuni University/ French State Degree
Entry requirements: MA1 in Religious Studies or MA1 in Theology (or equivalent)
Master 2 involves a thesis of 350 000 characters - (including spaces). Students will then complete an oral thesis defense in front of an academic jury.
Choose 4 courses from below and one research seminar, in accordance with the Director of Studies.
List of Courses
The Book of Tobit
The name which designates the book has not always been the same through the centuries. The name « Tobiah » in English or « Tobie » in French comes from the Latin Vulgate which gives the same Latin name, Tobias, to the father and the son. It has been used in the past decades but is generally no longer in use.
The Book of Esther
The book of Esther tells the story of... Esther, a young Jewish girl who is among the deportees living in Susa, in Persia. After the dismissal of the former queen Vashti because she disobeyed king Ahasuerus, Esther is chosen and becomes queen of Persia.
The Book of Judith
The book of Judith is named after its main hero whose achievements it tells and glorifies. Like the books of Tobit and Esther, the book of Judith focuses on a main character and tells in detail the salvation given by God in a critical situation.
Gerald O'Collins' Understanding of Symbols, Experience and Divine Revelation
Considering that the divine revelation always takes place in the form of symbols and within human experience, I also study O’Collins’ understanding of symbols and experience, and their relationship with the divine revelation.
How can we access the reality of revelation when both symbols and experience are historically, socially,and religiously conditioned and limited? What is the role of symbols in both the communication of the divine revelation by God and its experience by human beings?
Synoptic Gospels - Part II. Reading the Synoptic Gospels
Inter omnes divinas auctoritates, quae sanctis Litteris continentur,
Evangelium merito excellit.
Augustine, De consenu evangelistaren (I. 1.1)
Synoptic Gospels - Part III. Mysteries of the Life of Christ
Inter omnes divinas auctoritates, quae sanctis Litteris continentur,
Evangelium merito excellit.
Augustine, De consenu evangelistaren (I. 1.1)
SEM31 - The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas
This eight-week seminar will investigate some key elements of the Trinitarian theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. We will explore the mystery of the Trinity through several fundamental texts of the scholastic tradition.
From 8th October 2018 to 2nd September 2018. Seminar closed
New Testament Events
This course is part of the book,
Mahieu, Bieke. Between Rome and Jerusalem. Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition: A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC-39 AD, with a Time Setting of New Testament Events. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 208. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
Newman's Theory of Doctrinal Development
Application of the Newmanian Criteriology on the Axiom Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
Synoptic Gospels 1
Inter omnes divinas auctoritates, quae sanctis Litteris continentur, Evangelium merito excellit.
Augustine, De consenu evangelistaren (I. 1.1)
The New Testament as Jewish Literature
We propose to define each term of the title, in order to understand the cultural background that was the matrix of Christianity.
Bible seminar from April 9 to June 3, 2018
SEM39 - Colonialism and mission in sub-Saharan Africa
History of Christianity Seminar
April 22nd - June 16th, 2019
presented by Philippe Denis