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Fall 2013 Course Brochure

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Fall 2013 Courses

Course syllabi can be found in LATTE.

Professor Course # Course Title
Abusch NEJS 112a
 The Book of Genesis
Abusch NEJS 202a
 Akkadian Mythological/Religious Texts I
Brettler NEJS 117b  Dead Sea Scrolls
Brettler NEJS 122b
 Biblical narrative Texts: The Historical Tradition
Brettler NEJS 231a Graduate Proseminar in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Brooten NEJS 130a
 The New Testament:  A Historical Introduction
Brooten NEJS 29a Feminist Sexual Ethics in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Decter NEJS 123b
 Classical Biblical Commentaries
Decter NEJS 140a Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages
El-Tobgui ARBC 103a
 Lower Advanced Arabic
El-Tobgui ARBC 106a Advanced Arabic I: Contemporary Arabic Literature
Feiman-Nemser NEJS 169a Reading the Classroom as Text
Fishman NEJS 182a
 Jewish Life in Film and Fiction
Freeze FYS 28b
 The Jewish Family: Past and Present
Karjala/Staff ARBC 10a 1
 Beginning Arabic
Karjala/Staff ARBC 10a 2
 Beginning Arabic
Karjala ARBC 30a
 Intermediate Arabic I
Kellman YDSH 159b The Yiddish Classics: Fiction and Drama
Kellman YDSH 10a
 Beginning Yiddish
Kellman YDSH 30a Intermediate Yiddish
Kimelman FYS 18a
 Understanding Evil and Human Destiny
Kimelman NEJS 125b Midrashic Literature: Sifre Deuteronomy
Levisohn NEJS 171b Tikkun Olam/Repairing the World: Service and Social Justice in Theory and Practice
Lumbard IMES 104a
 Islam: Civilization and Institutions
Lumbard NEJS 190b Islamic Philosophy
Mirsky NEJS 154b Israel: Religion, State, and Society
Mirsky NEJS 192b Jewish Political Thought
Polonsky NEJS 137a
 The Destruction of European Jewry
Polonsky NEJS 137b A History of the Jews in Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, and Odessa
Sarna
 NEJS 162a
 American Judaism
Sarna HRNS 231b American Jewish Community in Historical Perspective
Smith NEJS 165b Changing Roles of Women in Jewish American Societies
Staff (Eric Harvey)
 NEJS 101a
 Elementary Akkadian
Staff (Tina Sherman) NEJS 10a Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Texts
Szobel NEJS 178a Love, Sex, and Power in Israeli Culture (Taught in Hebrew)
Szobel NEJS 180b Introduction to Israeli Literature, Film, and Culture
Troen/Friling NEJS 285b
 Conflict and Controversies in Israeli History
Wright NEJS 103a
 The Early History of God
Wright NEJS 113a The Bible in Aramaic