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RELIGION 230-0 : Introduction to Judaism

Description

This course attempts to answer the questions "What is Judaism?" and "Who is a Jew?" by surveying the broad arc of Jewish history, reviewing the practices and beliefs that have defined and continue to define Judaism as a religion, sampling the vast treasure of Jewish literatures, and analyzing the unique social conditions that have made the cultural experience of Jewishness so significant.

The class will employ a historical structure to trace the evolutions of Jewish literature, religion, and culture through the ages.

This class is asynchronous.