A 2015 course by Gerardo Rodríguez at Carroll College “surveys the historical, literary, cultural and theological heritage in ancient Israel from its earliest beginnings to the start of the Christian era. Attention will be paid to the geographical and historical contexts in which the Jewish scriptures arose, their social setting, political contexts and theological message.”
A 2009 course by Barbara Green at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary “offers a survey of the former prophets (as the books of Samuel and
Kings are called in the Jewish tradition) and of the latter or writing prophets (major and
minor) who are presented as having lived before the exile to Babylon (587 B.C.E.).”
A 2004 course by Annette Reed at McMaster University studies the first five books of the Bible by tracing “the processes by which these texts came to be formed and consider the multiple socio-historical contexts that informed them, while also analyzing their narrative structures and meaning in their present form.”
A 2012 course by Joel Kaminsky at Smith College moves chronologically through the prophets of ancient Israel asking “What are the different types of prophets that are found within the Hebrew Bible? What role did the prophets play within their larger society? Did different prophets deliver different, or even conflicting prophecies? Can one tell a true prophet from a false prophet? What sort of person became a prophet? What psychological dispositions do prophets exhibit? If prophecy is not simply fortune telling, what is it? “