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Academic Year 2000/2001
Judaism in the Time of Jesus
RELI 302 FA
This course will include a close reading of select Jewish writings composed between the close of the Hebrew Bible (ca. 400 B.C.E.) and the parallel rise of rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity (ca. 100 C.E.).
Readings will include the Old Testament
apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran, Philo and Josephus. Attention will be given to the creativity of these writings, their common setting in times of oppression and their place in the religious heritage of
Judaism and Christianity.
MAJOR READINGS
THE OXFORD ANNOTATED BIBLE WITH THE APOCRYPHA (RSV) J.H. Charlesworth (ed.), THE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA S. Cohen, FROM THE MACCABEES TO THE MISHNAH G.W.E. Nickelsburg, JEWISH LITERATURE BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND
THE MISHNAH V. Tcherikover,
HELLENISTIC CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS G. Vermes (ed.), THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS IN ENGLISH
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two short papers and one long one.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RELI
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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