Courses
Courses in Abrahamic Religions and Israel Studies - 2019/20 School Year
Abrahamic Religions
1. Reuven Amitai. Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Muslims: Cultural Encounters and
Religious conversion in Medieval Palestine
2. Davif Flatto. Covenantal Idea in Jewish Thought
3. Oded Irshai and Paula Fredrikson. Contesting the Land: Late Antiquity Jews and
Christians in Roman Palestine in Dialogue and Polemics (HU calendar)
4. Eli Lederhendler. Religion and Politics in American Jewry
5. Nili Wazana. Hevel: Studies in the Book of Quhelet
6. Esther Chazon. The Dead Sea Scrolls
7. Daniel Schwartz. From Pompey to the Destruction of the Second Temple: Rome,
Judea and Josephus
8. Ron Shaham. Islam: Belief, Law, and State (Rothberg)
9. Maren Neihoff, Origen's newly discovered Homilies on Psalms in Late Antique
Palaestinailies (HU calendar)
10. Wayne Horowitz, Astronomy & Historiography in Ancient Near East (HU calendar)
11. Yossi Garfinkel, Judah’s: The First Two Hundred Years (HU calendar)
Israel Studies
1. Jonathan Dekel-Chen. Kibbutz: Beginnings, Glory, the End?
2. Abigail Jacobson. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
3. Tamar Hess. Ethnic Memory in Israeli Literature
4. Noam Gal. The Problem of Place in Israeli Art
(Courses in this cluster available through the Faculty of Social Sciences)
5. Arie Kacowicz, Negotiating Middle East Peace
6. Laura Verton, Religion and State in Israel: Historical and Philosophical
Perspectives
7. Yuval Benziman, Dialogue, Narratives, Identities and Conflict Resolution
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Courses that run according with HU calendar end in mid-late June. Students from the following North American Universities: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Berkeley, Stanford and Toronto, as well as those from Oxford University, are eligible to enroll even if they expect to leave the country earlier and miss the last two or three classes. They will require to submit instead a short assignment.
Courses in Abrahamic Religions and Israel Studies - 2020/21 School Year
|
Semester |
Degree** |
Title of Course |
Teacher’s Name |
|
Abrahamic Religions |
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|
2 |
MA |
The Septuagint of Ezra and Nehemiah |
Prof. Michael Segal |
|
2 |
MA |
The Dead Sea Scrolls |
Prof. Esther Chazon |
|
2 |
MA |
Monarchy in Classical Jewish Thought |
Prof. David Flatto |
|
2 |
MA |
Paradise in Judaism and Christianity |
Dr. Yonatan Moss |
|
2 |
MA |
The 60s, the Jews, and American Society |
Prof. Eli Lederhendler |
|
1 |
MA |
The Philosophy of Modern Orthodox Judaism |
Prof. Arnold Davidson |
|
2 |
MA |
Paul as a Jewish Thinker: New Questions and New Answers |
Prof. Maren Niehoff |
|
2 |
MA |
The Quest for Jewish Folklore |
Dr. Dani Schrire |
|
2 |
BA |
Comparative Semitic Linguistics |
Prof. Steve Fassberg |
|
1 |
BA |
Topics in Jewish Political Thought |
Prof. David Flatto |
|
1 |
BA |
Rome and the Jews in the Imperial Period |
Dr. Yakir Paz |
|
1 |
BA |
Anthropological Perspectives on Islam in Indonesia |
Dr. Mirjam Lucking |
|
2 |
BA |
Psalms from the Second Temple Period |
Prof. Esther Chazon |
|
Israel Studies |
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2 |
MA |
Why Jerusalem: Jerusalem in Israeli Poetry |
Dr. Tamar Hess |
|
2 |
MA |
Jews in Israel and the Diaspora: A Comparative Approach |
Ms. Nadia Beider |
|
2 |
BA |
Religion and State in Israel: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives |
*Dr. Laura Wharton |
|
2 |
BA |
Negotiating Middle East Peace |
*Prof. Arie Kacowicz |
|
2 |
BA |
Critical Approaches to Security Studies |
*Dr. Yehonatan Abramson |
*Courses offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences, HU.
**BA courses are open to graduate students upon approval from the teacher.
Courses in Abrahamic Religions and Israel Studies - 2021/22 School Year
| Comments |
Semester |
Degree |
Title of Course |
Teacher’s Name |
|
Abrahamic Religions |
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| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Biblical Court Tales |
Prof. Michael Segal |
| HU calendar |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
The Covenantal Idea in Jewish Thought |
Prof. David Flatto |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
The Economy and Social Structure of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah |
Dr. Igor Kreimerman |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
MA |
Hazor: 'Head of all Those Kingdoms |
Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
MA |
The Legacy of German Jewish Modernism |
Prof. Vivian Liska |
| HU calendar, last classes viaZoom |
2 |
MA |
Hannah Arndet and Rachel Varnhagen |
Prof. Michael Fisch |
| HU calendar | 2 | MA | Spiritual Exercises in Modern Jewish Philosophy | Prof. Arnold Davidson |
| HU calendar |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Travel in the Medieval Islamic World |
Dr. Oded Zinger |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Discipline and Punish: Heresy, Religious Minorities and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe |
Dr. Martina Mampieri |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Death, Dying and Grief in Islam |
Dr. Koloka Hanlis |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
MA |
Images of Paradise in the Qur'an and in Islam |
Dr. Koloka Hanlis |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Language of Biblical Poetry |
Prof. Adina Moshavi |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
From Islam to Islamism: The Historical Roots of Political Islam |
Prof. Adam Silverstein |
| US calendar |
2 |
MA |
Interconnecting Islam: Roads and Inns from the Umayyad through the Ottoman Period |
Prof. Katia Zitrin-Silverman |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom | 2 | BA (open for students from elite universities) | Introduction to the Arab States of the Gulf | Dr. Nora Derbal |
| Pending approval of Lady Davis post-doc fellowship | 2 | MA | Wine in the Kabbalah of Tzfat: Symbol and Instrument | Dr. Vadim Potcho |
| Zoom | 1 | MA | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Prof. Esther Chazon |
| Israel Studies | ||||
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
MA |
I am Aharoning: Reading David Grossman |
Dr. Tamar Hess |
| HU calendar |
2 |
MA |
The Kibbuts: Beginnings, Glory, the End? |
Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen |
| HU calendar, last classes via Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
Israeli Art in the Thirds Millennium |
Dr. Noam Gal |
| Zoom |
2 |
BA (open for students from elite universities) |
The Population of Israel |
Prof. Uzi Rebhun |
| HU calendar |
2 |
BA (students from elite universities can enrol conditioned approval by teacher |
Religion and State in Israel: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives |
*Dr. Laura Wharton |
| HU calendar | 2 | MA | Dialogue, Narratives, Identities and Conflict Resolution | Dr. Yuval Benziman* |
*Courses of the Faculty of Social Sciences
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