Beyonce and the Hebrew Bible

Catalog description

Taught by SFTS. This course will explore the social discourse and politics surrounding the music and public persona of Beyonce Knowles. The course will use Knowles a paradigmatic figure to explore issues of womanist thought, with particular interest in topics of race, class, and gender, focusing on concepts of sexuality, embodiment, agency, etc. These popular social and political issues will serve as a framework to evaluate various texts in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. [Faculty Consent required; 20 max enrollment; Auditors with faculty permission]