Biblical Literature

This semester I am taking a Biblical Literature class a school. I've heard good things about this class from other people, and I am super excited to see what I can learn. What I think is interesting though, is a public school teaching a bible class. Now, this class is not taught from a Christian perspective, it is taught as a piece of literature. It's a very unique approach, one that I never thought about. After 3 weeks of this class, let me tell you, I love this class!! We have amazing discussion and are going slowly through the old testament. We were assigned this project (which I'm presenting tomorrow) to take a Christian song and analyze it as a piece of poetry. I chose David Crowder's version of How He Loves, and cannot wait to present it.

Anyway, I am super excited for this class because I want to learn some on the facts and history behind the old testament. With my challenge, I do not have time to dwell on a passage for a couple of days, I have to appreciate it for a moment and move on. With this class, I hope to answer some questions that I've had about Scripture and learn some important details about the OT. I also imagine that this class is a good introduction to Bible classes I hope to take in college. Now, I know that these type of classes will be different from eachother(christian college & public high school), but I want the two perspectives. This Bib Lit class is going to be awesome, I can tell. Hopefully I can tell some more about it as I go along. Here's something I never knew:

There are two different accounts of creation in Genesis, chapter 1 & 2. Read the two stories and notice the differences, tone and details. We had a very interesting discussion about that one class.

Just an update for my challenge, I finished Nehemiah this morning and am back on track from my little set back this last week or so. I'm excited to continue in Acts and start Esther then Job!