What Were They Thinking? Doing? Creating?
The Civilizations of the Jews from the Rise of the Israelites to the Edge of Modernity
Wednesday evenings - 7:15 PM
Guided by Rav Jeremy, we’ll delve into the social situation of the Jews of various ages, the intellectual and cultural issues they wrestled with and the things they produced as they wrestled. We hope to have guest teachers join us for some of our sessions.
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- November 9 -- The rise of the Israelites
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December 14 -- Developments in Israelite politics and religion in the First Temple Period
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January 11 -- Exile and Return – Babylonian exile, reestablishment in Eretz Yisrael, What’s Torah Judaism?
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January 25 -- Hellenistic Judaisms (possible guest lecturer)
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February 8 -- Foundations of Rabbinic Judaism (possible guest lecturer)
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March 14 -- Jewish politics and Religion in the Talmudic and Geonic periods
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April 11 -- The Golden Age and Related Developments
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May 9 -- The End of the Golden Age and Related Developments
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May 23 -- The Jewis in Christian Europe after the Crusades
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June 13 -- Foundations of Eastern European Judaism