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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Tigay. An introduction to the major themes and ideas of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), with attention to the contributions of archaeology and modern Biblical scholarship, including Biblical criticism and the response to it in Judaism and Christianity. All readings are in English.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Freshman Seminar. An introduction to the literary and legal sources of Jewish law within an historical framework. Emphasis will be placed upon the development and dynamics of Jewish jurisprudence, and the relationship between Jewish law and social ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Hellerstein. This course introduces students of literature, women's studies, and Jewish studies to the long tradition of women as readers, writers, and subjects in Jewish literature. All texts will be in translation from Yiddish and Hebrew, or in English. Through a variety of genres--devotional literature, memoir, fiction, and poetry -- we will study women's roles and selves, the relation of women and men, and the interaction between Jewish texts and women's lives. The legacy of women in Yiddish devotional literature will serve as background for our reading of modern Jewish fiction & poetry from the past century. The course is devided into five segments. The first presents a case study of the Matriarchs Rachel and Leah, as they are portrayed in the Hebrew Bible, in rabbinic commentary, in pre-modern prayers, and in modern poems. We then examine a modern novel that recasts the story of Dinah, Leah's daughter. Next we turn to the seventeenth century Glikl of Hamel, the first Jewish woman memoirist. The third segment focuses on devotional literature for and by women. In the fourth segment, we read modern women poets in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. The course concludes with a fifth segment on fiction and a memoir written by women in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Staff. The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and archaeological research provide distinct, and at times conflicting, accounts of the origins and development of ancient Israel and its neighbors. Religion, culture and politics ensure that such accounts of the past have significant implications for the world we live in today. In this course we will discuss the latest archaeological) research from Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan as it relates to the Bible, moving from Creation to the Babylonian Exile. Students will critically engage the best of both biblical and archaeological scholarship, while being exposed to the interpretive traditions of Anthropology as an alternative approach to the available evidence. Open discussions of the religious, social and political implications of the material covered will be an important aspect of the course.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. The study of four paradigmatic and classic Jewish texts so as to introduce students to the literature of classic Judaism. Each text will be studied historically -- "excavated" for its sources and roots -- and holistically, as a canonical document in Jewish tradition. While each text will inevitably raise its own set of issues, we will deal throughout the semester with two basic questions: What makes a "Jewish" text And how do these texts represent different aspects of Jewish identity All readings will be in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Stern. An introduction to medieval Hebrew literature, with special attention to poetry, narrative, and the interpretation of the Bible, and to the varieties of Jewish experience that these literary works touch upon. All readings in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Gold. The course is taught in English and the texts are in translation. The content of this course changes from year to year, and therefore, students may take it for credit more than once. This course examines cinematic and literary portrayals of love and war created by Israeli men and women from the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 to date. Many of the works are situated, and therefore discussed, in their historical contexts. Unlike the American tradition, Israeli consciousness understates the "pursuit of happiness." The "tug of war" between individual needs and the committment to collective, national causes, is an overarching theme in Israeli fiction, poetry and film. Additionally, in the early decades of the state's existence great emphasis was placed on a homogenous national identity, while differences were often intentionally suppressed. This struggle between individual aspirations and identity, versus the nees of the collective is reflected in the arts, and crosses lines of gender and genre, age and ethnic background.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Silverman/Wegner. Weekly lectures (some of which will be illustrated) and a field trip to the University Museum's Egyptian Section. The multifaceted approach to the subject matter covers such topics as funerary literature and religion, cults, magic religious art and architecture, and the religion of daily life.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Houser Wegner. This class will examine the many roles played by women in ancient Egypt. From goddesses and queens, to wives and mothers, women were a visible presence in ancient Egypt. We will study the lives of famous ancient Egyptian women such as Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra. More independent than many of their contemporaries in neighboring areas, Egyptian women enjoyed greater freedoms in matters of economy and law. By examining the evidence left to us in the literature (including literary texts and non-literary texts such as legal documents, administrative texts and letters), the art, and the archaeological record, we will come away with a better understanding of the position of women in this ancient culture.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Allen. The purpose of this course is to present a variety of narrative genres and to discuss and illustrate the modes whereby they can be analyzed. We will be looking at some shorter types of narrative: short story, the novella, and the fable, but also some extracts from longer works such as autobiography. While some of the works will be from the Anglo-American tradition, a large number of others will be from European and non-Western cultural traditions and from earlier time periods. The course will thus offer ample opportunity for the exploration of the translation of cultural values in a comparative perspective.
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