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You never were assigned anything from the Bible? by Fighting_Artichoke

While I definitely agree that ND is neither small nor a Bible college, ! (like many other Domers) took "B-" Burtchaell for Introductory to Biblical Criticism. We had a reading due each and every class period, complete with quizzes to make sure each student read the book or passages.

Those Old Testament readings were long, and when we finally got to the New Testament, we had to look up every reference to the Old Testament because he quizzed us on how the reference was taken out of context.