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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ross. Systematic examinations of the nature of religious experiences; proofs of the existence of God; the problem of evil; the relationships of faith and reason; and the possibility of religious knowledge.
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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Examination of folk beliefs, witchcraft, healing, divination, and spirit phenomena in the context of folkloristic, anthropological, psychological, and especially para-psychological explanations.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This seminar will enagage works of autobiography in the African American tradition with paricular attention to the spiritual and religious contexts of the authors. We will discuss recurring themes, scriptual motifs, and religious and social tensions expressed in the works. Gender, political ideology, social activism, and religious identification will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. The purpose of this course is two-fold: first, to study some of the more important ways in which the Bible was read and interpreted before the modern period; second, to consider the uses to which some contemporary literary theorists have put these ancient modes of interpretation as models and precursors for their own writing. The major portion of the course will be devoted to intensive readings of major ancient exegetes, Jewish and Christian, with a view to considering their exegetical approaches historically as well as from the perspective of contemporary critical and hermeneutical theory. Readings of primary sources will be accompanied by secondary readings that will be both historically oriented as well as theoretical with the latter including Hartman, Kermode, Todorov, and Bloom.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fishman. This is a Bi-directional course which explores attitudes toward, and perceptions of, the religious "Other", in different periods of history. Themes include legislation regulating interactions with the Other, polemics, popular beliefs about the Other, divergent approaches to scriptural interpretation, and cross-cultural influences, witting and unwitting. Different semesters may focus on Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Early Modern period, or contemporary times. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Fishman. Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Hebrew. This course traces reflections on rabbinic culture produced within Jewish legal literature of the classic rabbinic period - - Midrash, Mishna, and Talmud - - and in later juridical gemres - - Talmudic commentary, codes and responsa. Attention will be paid to the mechanics of different genres, the role of the underlying prooftext, the inclusion or exclusion of variant opinions, the presence of non-legal information, attitudes toward predecessors, balance between precedent and innovation.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Reading and discussion course on selected topics in Jewish history. The instructors are visiting scholars at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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3.00 Credits
Staff. An advanced reading and discussion seminar on varying subjects in Latin literature: authors, genres or topics. Focus will vary each semester, and the course may be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Matter. Prerequisite(s): None--some background in European history helpful. The development of the major Christian groups from the Central Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern era. Theolory, worship, and community identification.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Matter. Prerequisite(s): None-some background in European history helpful. The development of the major Chrisitan groups from the Central Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern era. Theology, worship, and community identification.
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