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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2011
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FSEM 107 001 (CRN: 17356)
JESUS & JEWISH IMAGINATION
Long Title: JESUS IN THE JEWISH IMAGINATION
Department: Humanities Division
Instructor: Weininger, Melissa S.
Meeting: 3:00PM - 5:59PM W (22-AUG-2011 - 2-DEC-2011)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Restrictions:
Must have matriculated during one of the following Academic Year(s):
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 4
Enrollment data as of: 17-MAY-2024 2:06AM
Description: The figure of Jesus has inspired a certain amount of fascination in the modern Jewish imagination, serving as a symbol of political longing, the universality of suffering, and biographic and spiritual displacement. Why did the Christian messiah, who for most of Jewish history was a taboo or vilified character, fascinate so many Jewish writers, artists, and thinkers of the twentieth century? Beginning with background in ancient sources, this course will examine the development of modern Jewish historical philosophical, literary, and artistic understandings of Jesus. We will discuss how Jewish thinkers and writers have viewed Jesus and Christianity, the various political and cultural interests and longings Jesus came to represent for them and why, for certain writers, Jesus became a potent symbol for thinking about Jewish experience. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course.