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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. Development of Jewish thought from enlightenment and emancipation from ghettos, through attempts at assimilation, the Holocaust and birth of the Jewish State. Development of conservative, reform and orthodox Judaism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE foundation requirements. Explores some major trends and themes of the Jewish mystical and esoteric tradition. Included are various forms of Kabalah and Hasidism, meditation and mysticism; explanations of and responses to evil; the nature of God and the relationship between human beings and the divine being; gender dynamics, and the power of ritual.
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3.00 Credits
Biblical Hebrew I imparts the basic grammatical inflections, conjugations, and structures of elementary biblical Hebrew and starts the student on the path of mastering the specific vocabulary of biblical Hebrew. Introduces history and particularity of this language as well as standard reference tools employed in reading biblical Hebrew.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: R/ST 318. Biblical Hebrew II completes instruction in grammar of biblical Hebrew and introduces major syntactical constructions of this language. Increases student's biblical Hebrew vocabulary, hones skills in use of reference books for biblical Hebrew, and allows initial confrontation with selections from Hebrew Old Testament itself.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Alphabets and grammar of Aramaic, the language of Jesus, will be taught. Cultural excursuses survey the history of the ancient international language Aramaic and its role in understanding Jesus and the Judaism of his time.Not open for credit to students with credit in R/ST 220A.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Advanced grammar and readings in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and the international language of the Near East prior to the importation of Greek. Select cultural excursuses into the historical impact of Aramaic and special study of unpublished manuscripts. Not open for credit to students with credit in R/ST 220B.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. The emergent Christian community, seen through the missionary and pastoral letters, the synoptic gospels, the radical theologies of Paul and John and the dramatic visions of the Apocalypse.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Explorations courses, and upper-division standing. The Koran, Muhammad and the rise of Islam as a cosmopolitan faith. The development of Muslim civilization, including literature, theology, philosophy and Sufism (mysticism).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation, one or more Explorations courses and upper-division standing. Covers mainly Sufism and Sh?'ism and their intimate relationship. Examines contribution of some great S?fis and Sh?'ite thinkers to development of inner dimensions of Islam i.e. mysticism, esoterism, and spirituality. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation, one or more Explorations Courses and upper-division standing. Human thought and history of ideas. Survey of history of medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought. Examines contribution of some great philosophers to development of medieval thought. Highly intellectual dealing mainly with abstract concepts of metaphysics: God, creation, and theory of knowledge.
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