Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part IIA, 2010: Special subjects and prescribed texts

The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part IIA, in 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 412).

Paper A1. Scriptural languages and texts

• See special subject for Part I.

Paper B1. Intermediate language and texts

• A. Hebrew II (Intermediate Hebrew)
• Deuteronomy 5-15; Judges 13-16; Jonah; Job 1-2, 42.7-17.

• B. New Testament Greek
• Mark 1-8 and Galatians.

• C. Sanskrit
• Rgvedasamhitā 1.1, 1.154, 2.12, 2.33, 7.61, 7.86, 8.48, 10.14, 10.90, 10.129 (in A. A. Macdonell, A Vedic Reader for Students); Aitareyabrāhmana, extracts 2-4 (in O. Böhtlingk, Sanskrit Chrestomathie, 3rd edition, pp. 28-34); Buddhacarita 3.

• D. Arabic
• The Qur'an, Sura XIX; Abu Sa'id al-Baydawi, Anwar al-tanzil wa-asrar al-ta'wil (Istanbul, 1329AH), 404-5; Bin Juzayy al-Kalbi, Tafsir Beirut, 1983/1403), pp. 413-16; al-Waqidi, Kitab al-Maghazi, ed. Marsden Jones (Oxford, 1966), Vol. II, pp. 731-8; Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, al-Minhaj fi sharh Sahir Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (Cairo, 1347AH), Vol. II, pp. 79-98; Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Jawzi, Sifat al-safwa (Hyderabad, 1355AH), Vol. IV, pp. 155-9.

Paper B2. The literature, history, and theology of the exilic age

• Isaiah 40-55.

Paper B3. Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods

• 2 Esdras (IV Ezra) 3-14 (from the Apocrypha in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, NRSV); the Wisdom of Solomon 6-7.24; 10-12 (NRSV); Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 44-50 (NRSV); and 1 Maccabees 1-2 (NRSV); the Damascus Document 1.1-3.13 (G. Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 5th edition. London 1997); Josephus Antiquities 13.405-432 (R. Marcus, Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Books XII-XIII. Loeb Classical Library 365, Harvard, 1943); a selection of inscriptions (W. Horbury and D. Noy, eds, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge, 1992, nos 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39); and a selection of coins (Y. Meshorer, Jewish coins of the Second Temple period. Translated from the Hebrew by I. H. Levine. Tel Aviv, Am Hassefer, 1967, nos 5-9, 18-20, 30-32, 37-39, 153, 162-163, 165-170, 235-238; and Fitzwilliam Museum CM.LS.3356-R). .

Paper B4. The letters of Paul

• I Corinthians.

Paper B5. The Johannine tradition

• John 1-6, 17-20; 1 John 2-3; 3 John.

Paper B6. Belief and practice in the early Church

• There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.

Paper B7. Reform and renewal in Christian history

• This paper will not be available in 2009-10.

Paper B8. Study of theology I

• Augustine, Confessions Books III, IV, VII, IX, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1991); Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a1, 1a13, 3a75 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, Blackfriars edition, London, 1964), Volumes 1, 3, and 58; K. Barth, Church Dogmatics 1.1 (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 2nd edn, 1975), pp. 295-383; F. D. E. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh, 1928), pp. 425-38, 723-51.

Paper B9. Christian culture in the western world

• Prescribed topic: Image and icon in Christian tradition.

Paper B10. Philosophy of religion: God, freedom, and the soul

Paper B11. Ethics and faith

Paper B12. Psychology and religion

Paper B13. Religious themes in literature

• Prescribed topic: Moral vision in the European novel.



• There are no prescribed texts for Papers B10, B11, B12, and B13, but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of Full Easter Term.

Paper B14. Life, thought, and worship of modern Judaism

Paper B15. Introduction to Islam

Paper B16. Life and thought of religious Hinduism and of Buddhism

• There are no prescribed texts for Papers B14, B15, and B16.