RS 130Big Ideas of the Bible
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- Spring 2021
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2021 and last ran in Winter 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W21
Ran in 1 term, Winter 2021 to Winter 2021.
The Bible is the most translated and most read document in human history. This course explores central biblical ideas, from creation to the end of time, violence to redemption, and political intrigue to family ties, and examines their impact on Judaism, Christianity, and Western Culture. [Note: This course fulfils an Area 2 requirement for Religious Studies majors.]
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention RS 130, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2019
Is there a way to review a quiz after I submitted it in Learn? 5 points, 5 comments
“So I fucked up. One of my assignments is tied to a word I had to translate in a quiz I did. It's been almost a week since I did the quiz and I completely forgot the word because it was in Hebrew and …”
u/ZeGoldenLlama: “Can't help you. But curious, what course was this for?”
u/MattTheFreeman: “Big Ideas of the Bible, JS/RS 130/131 It's reallllly interesting and you learn a lot. You are not graded on your theology. Its almost a history course/literature course/language course all put into one”
Fall 2017
Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments
“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”
u/Jackhofmann: “… 261 REES 271 REES 273 REES 495 RELC 103W RELC 220W RELC 313W RS 100 RS 110 RS 112 RS 121 RS 130 RS 133 RS 170 RS 180 RS 213 RS 216 RS 233 RS 236 RS 242R RS 266 RS 270R RS 283 RS 291 RS 327 RS 353 RS 357 RS 380 RS 398 RS 499 RS 700 RSCH 100 RUSS 101 SCBUS 123 SCBUS 223 SCBUS 225 …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2020–21Its last calendar entry, on uwloo
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1977–78 to 1979–80, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1977–78 to 1979–80 3 calendars
A study of the nature of the Christian faith with consideration of questions such as these: How do you speak of God in a secular age? What significance have the Bible and Church doctrines for history and faith? Who is Jesus? The Cross and Resurrection; the question of Salvation.
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit