REL 106 - Judaism

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years.

Through a variety of sources, including Talmudic debate, novels, liturgy, memoirs, film, and history, this course introduces the main concepts, literature, and practices of the classical forms of Judaism that began in the first centuries C.E., and then examines how Judaism has changed during the past two centuries, in modernist movements (Reform, Neo-Orthodoxy, Zionism) and contemporary fundamentalist movements (Ultra-Orthodoxy, messianic settler Zionism), as well as current ideas and issues. Marks.