Hokma House^® is pleased to announce a new

 

SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARS (SBS)

 

AFRICAN FORUM FOR BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP

...for the brightest and best of the sons and daughters of Africa-and the world!

 

• Membership open thro' institutional/organizational (quota) nomination

• Membership application form to be completed by 30 September 2010

• Membership dues payable upon acceptance only, with issued invoice

• Associate membership open to doctoral students in biblical studies

• Call for papers/pre-registration package to be sent by March/May, 2011

• Request now for faculty member nomination letter from Hokma House!

 ... rediscovering the Christian faith and tradition in all its fullness!

 

For Inquiries/Forms, contact:

Secretary, Hokma House/SBS Planning Team, POB 13155, Jos 930001, Plateau State, Nigeria

hokmahouse_nigeria@yahoo.com / Phone (GSM): 234 703 155 4297

 

 SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARS (SBS)

AFRICAN FORUM FOR BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP

CLU / CPU Fact Sheet

 

CONGRESS LEARNING UNIT (CLU)

 

SBS is structured around learning units, built on the very simple idea that most learning involves discovery, and what is discovered about self, others, the world, and even God, often comes via learning. CLUs are designed to be constructive, interactive, reflective, and research focused about texts, topics and issues they treat. Academic endeavors have intrinsic merit and do not easily yield to extrinsic factors. But such expended efforts must serve some salutary goal of benefiting human endeavors and advancing a truer knowledge of the world as it was and as it has become, with the sheer possibility of finding our place in it. The much desired change in Africa comes via the path of learning, with more to learn about, much to unlearn that is false, and relish in what one has found!

 

OVERVIEW OF CLUs ACCORDING TO BROAD CLASSIFICATION

 

Biblical study, as broadly classified below, necessarily takes pride of place at SBS. Thus, CLUs are constituted by the classifications below, which typically reflect broad areas of research interest and scholarly competence of persons engaged in this exercise. CLUs are not stops in HH's journey to rediscovering biblical faith and the Christian tradition in all their fullness and freshness. They help to map the journey and shape the contours of the rediscovery process itself.

 

Biblical Exegesis & Interpretation: OT / NT

Biblical Backgrounds & Archaeology

Biblical (or OT / NT) Theology

Biblical History & Cognate Studies

Hermeneutics & Criticism

Inter-testamental (Jewish) Studies

Second Temple/Rabbinic Studies

Second Century/Patristic Studies

Language, Linguistics & Textual Criticism

Dead Sea Scrolls/Qumran Studies

Religions, Comparative/History of

Interdisciplinary Studies/Bible, Theology, Culture

 

CPU: CENTRAL PROGRAM UNIT ACCORDING TO RESEARCH INTEREST

Facilitator must name a CPU from or based on existing CLU; it is an abstraction. CPUs change, CLUs don't. Members choose CPUs to join!

Central Program Units (CPUs) are formed from each CLU and help participants to explore more fully the wide ranges of a given CLU via the compass of a chosen topic or text or problem. CPUs are where thoughts are provoked and solutions proffered for biblical/theological issues. CPUs may combine a number of program session formats: 1. learning cohort (exploratory sessions, designed to survey or introduce a CPU/CLU, examine the issues that once defined it, and continue to define it, or no longer define it); 2. seminar/colloquium (1 or 2 days of intensive study/[panel] discussion of a topic/text/problem around a key paper with respondents); 3. consultation (1-day forum where scholars/experts assess a given topic/issue in a CLU, or as determined by convener); 4. soundings (investigations/developments within the biblical "guildiscipline" that bear on non-theological fields, or vice versa; sessions are interdisciplinary and engage extensively with [non-] African issues).

 

For inquiries, contact: Secretary, SBS @ Hokma House, P. O. Box 13155, Jos 930001, Plateau State, Nigeria. E-mail: hokmahouse_nigeria@yahoo.com