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December 2025  Spotlight  Candidate  Standard Module
Mixed Lecture/Discussion • Low intensity

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The premise for this course is that the Primeval History (i.e. Genesis 1-11) provides the key conceptual roadmap for how to understand the rest of the biblical narrative (especially the OT, but pertaining to the NT as well). Once the reader begins to see these connections, an entire world is opened up, because subsequent biblical authors continue to build on the foundational elements introduced in the early chapters of Genesis.

This course is designed for a reader to learn how to see these elements for themselves so that the student can continue to explore them in the future in the rest of the biblical literature and in literature outside the Bible as well. This course would deal with topics pertinent specifically to Genesis 1-11. For example: is Genesis 1-11 properly classified as "history," or "myth," or something else? And on the spectrum of literal versus non-literal interpretation of texts, what should be applied? Are there any textual indicators for these things, and if so, how do we recognize them?

Required Texts

The Holy Bible Optional text: "Biblical Foundations: A Handbook for Reading the Old Testament," by J.D. Ruark (as yet unpublished)
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Days and Times

Meeting Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern for eight 1-hour sessions on December 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, (skip 25), 30

Signum Time
US/Eastern
Note Your Time
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Tue, Dec 2
8:00 PM
Thu, Dec 4
8:00 PM
Tue, Dec 9
8:00 PM
Thu, Dec 11
8:00 PM
Tue, Dec 16
8:00 PM
Thu, Dec 18
8:00 PM
Tue, Dec 23
8:00 PM
Tue, Dec 30
8:00 PM