Resources
Official course descriptions are maintained by the Office of the University Registrar. Follow these links:
- Course descriptions from the Brandeis University Bulletin (course catalog)
- Near Eastern and Judaic Studies course list from Registrar's Web site
Courses
Spring 2010
Course syllabi can be found in LATTE.
| Professor | Course Number |
Course Name |
| Abusch | NEJS 101b |
Intermediate Akkadian |
| Abusch | NEJS 202b |
Akkadian Mythological/Religious Texts II |
| Al-Jallad |
ARBC 40b |
Advanced Intermediate Literary Arabic |
| Brettler | NEJS 111a | The Hebrew Bible |
| Brettler | NEJS 121b | Biblical Poetry: Love and Death |
| Brooten | NEJS 130a |
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction |
| Brooten | NEJS 148a |
Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Jews and Christians |
| El-Tobgui | ARBC 103b |
Advanced Literary Arabic |
| El-Tobgui/ Al-Jallad |
ARBC 20b (2) |
Continuing Literary Arabic |
| El-Tobgui/ Shabaka |
ARBC 20b (1) |
Continuing Literary Arabic |
| Fishman | NEJS 172a | Women in American Jewish Literature |
| Freeze |
NEJS 166a |
Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present |
| Freeze |
WMGS 5a |
Women and Gender in Culture and Society |
| Kellman |
NEJS 262a |
Graduate Seminar in Modern Jewish Literature: Culture, Place and Gender |
| Kellman | YDSH 75a | Yiddish Literature and the Modern Jewish Revolution: From Dybbuk to Yentl |
| Kellman | YDSH 20b |
Continuing Yiddish |
| Kimelman |
NEJS 125b |
Midrashic Literature: Sifre Deuteronomy |
| Kimelman |
NEJS 127b |
The Jewish Liturgy |
| Lumbard |
NEJS 186b |
Quran: History, Commentary and Hermeneutics |
| Makiya |
IMES 105a |
War and Revolution in the Middle East |
| Makiya | NEJS 190a | Describing Cruelty |
| Polonsky |
NEJS 137a |
The Destruction of European Jewry |
| Polonsky |
NEJS 142a |
Modern History of East European Jewry |
| Rivo |
NEJS 181a |
Jews on Screen |
| Shabaka |
ARBC 106b |
Fourth Level Advanced Arabic II |
| Sheppard | NEJS 154a |
World Without God: Theories of Secularization |
| Smith |
NEJS 167a |
East European Jewish Immigration to the U.S. |
| Szobel |
NEJS 173a |
Trauma and Violence in Israeli Literature and Film |
| Szobel |
NEJS 178b |
Masculinity and Femininity in Israeli Film, Literature and Culture |
| Troen |
NEJS 145a |
History of the State of Israel |
| Wright |
NEJS 211b |
History of the Israelite Religions |
| Wright |
NEJS 9a |
The World of the Ancient Near East |