Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Medieval Jewish Writings
Term
2022A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC458401
Course number integer
458
Meeting times
M 01:45 PM-04:45 PM
Meeting location
WILL 723
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Talya Fishman
Description
Through close readings of primary sources, students will explore products of Jewish culture written in both Christian and Muslim lands between the 10th and 16th centuries, within their historical and cross-cultural contexts. Works will include selections from poetry, philosophy, Bible exegesis, polemic, ethical wills, historiography, pietism, mysticism and legal writings. Students with appropriate language skills will read Hebrew sources in the original. Graduate students will have additional assignments and meetings.
Course number only
458
Cross listings
COML257401, JWST153401, NELC158401
Use local description
No