The class is for anyone open to looking at the Bible from an archetypal-psychology point of view. That is, we will see scripture as an expression of the deep psyche – which means that it is relevant to us now, as an expression of the psyche itself, regardless of our religious or spiritual orientation. This course is for many types of the curious: it is for newcomers to the Bible who would like an introduction to the stories and history, or for scholars looking for a psychological viewpoint, or for clinicians hoping to understand the psyche – or for the religiously oriented who would like another viewpoint, or for anyone interested in the way scripture uncovers human structures of motivation and meaning. The New Testament emerged just as the western world developed a new awareness of the soul and was thrown into existential chaos. In some ways the situation mirrored our own: people were concerned about a new globalization, new technology, and a threat to former values. What did an obscure Jewish prophet and a small band followers do and say that so caught the collective imagination of the western world that it developed into the giant religion known as Christianity? What aspects of that view might be relevant today – in fact what parts of it might be as radical today as they were then? These are some of the questions we will dive into in this course – with the help of a Jungian appreciation of the vital role of the psyche in both personal and world events.