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- Course descriptions from the Brandeis University Bulletin (course catalog)
Fall 2013 Course Brochure
Printable Course Brochure, 3 pages (pdf)
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Fall 2013 Courses
Course syllabi can be found in LATTE.
| Professor | Course Number | 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 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 |
| 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 |