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Mishnah and Tosefta

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Course Level-Format: graduate
Instructor: Michael Satlow
Institution: Brown University

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A course by Michael Satlow at Brown University asks about the Mishnah, “Why was it compiled? Who was its intended audience and what was its function? What are its antecedents?”

Visions of the End: Early Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism

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Instructor: Philip Harland
Institution: York University

Course Term: Winter
Course Year: 2014

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A 2014 course by Phil Harland at York University “investigates the origins, development and legacies of apocalypticism within Judean culture and early Christianity. . . . . [it] will also survey the legacies of apocalypticism in religious movements, popular culture (including music and film), and artistic representation to the present day.”

Text and Tradition: Jewish Civilization Through the Ages

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Course Level-Format: introductory  |   undergraduate
Instructor: Joel Kaminsky
Institution: Smith College

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2012

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A 2012 course by Joel Kaminsky at Smith College “explores major Jewish texts, ideas and practices over a period of more than 3,000 years.”

Seminar in Early Judaism

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: John Reeves
Institution: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2008

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A 2008 course by John Reeves at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte treats issues “in the study of early Judaism as construed chronologically from the beginning of the Second Temple to the Arab conquest of Syria-Palestine.”

Moses and the Origins of Monotheism

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Instructor: Michael Zank
Institution: Boston University

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A 2008 course by Michael Zank at Boston University explores the figure of Moses in the Hebrew Bible and various historical periods.

Judaism

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Course Level-Format: introductory  |   undergraduate
Instructor: Martha Reineke
Institution: University of Northern Iowa

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Course Year: 1998

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A 1998 course by Martha Reineke at the University of Iowa introduces “the basic tenets of Judaism, learning something of its history and diverse practices” through a focus on exploring Judaism through the Internt.

Gender and Judaism

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Instructor: Deeana Klepper
Institution: Boston University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2014

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A 2008 course by Deeana Klepper at Boston University explores “the role of gender and sexuality in Judaism and Jewish experience, historically and in the present. Subjects will include constructions of masculinity and femininity, attitudes toward (and uses of) the body and sexuality, textual traditions, and the gendered nature of religious practice and religious authority.”

Cultural History of Satan: Evil Personified in Early Judaism and in Christianity

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Philip Harland
Institution: York University

Course Term: Winter
Course Year: 2011

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A 2011 course by Phil Harland at York University.

20th Century Jewish Literature

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Joseph Edelheit
Institution: St. Cloud State University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2008

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A 2008 course by Joseph Edelheit at St. Cloud State University “offers a survey-overview of Jewish literature in the 20th century.”

The Judaism of the Talmud and Midrash

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Instructor: Eliezer Segal
Institution: The University of Calgary

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 1998

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A 1998 course by Eliezer Segal at the University of Calgary studies the aggadah and halakhah, the “religious institutions produced by the Jewish Rabbis from the first to the sevent centuries C.E.”