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ELAN 60982 Holocaust Representation in Visual Culture (Cathy Gelbin, email: cathy.gelbin@manchester.ac.uk)
ELAN 61022 Literary Representations of the Holocaust
ELAN 61052 Issues in the Understanding of the Holocaust
MEST 60001 Faculty Research Training Course compulsory core course
MEST 10211 Modern
Hebrew Language 1A (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
Modern Hebrew at level I.
MEST 10212 Modern Hebrew Language 1B (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): a post-beginner's level a continuation of MEST 10211, which
teaches the skills of reception (reading and listening), production
(speaking and writing) in the target language and mediation
between the target language and English (translation and interpretation).
MEST 20211 Modern Hebrew Language 2A (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): a lower intermediate level course, which teaches the skills
of reception (reading and listening), production (speaking and
writing) in the target language and mediation between the target
language and English (translation and interpretation).
MEST 20212 Modern Hebrew Language 2B (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): an intermediate level course, a continuation of MEST 2211, which
teaches the skills of reception (reading and listening), production
(speaking and writing) in the target language and mediation
between the target language and English (translation and interpretation).
MEST 2022 Hebrew Language Texts (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): introduces students to a variety of modern Hebrew texts, e.g.
short stories, news extracts, reports, etc. It will be complementary
to the language courses and will help expand the student’s vocabulary,
reading skills and use of dictionaries.
MEST 30210 Modern Hebrew Language 3 (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): an upper intermediate level language course, aiming to achieve
a higher level of fluency in the language using all four skills:
reading, writing, listening and speaking.
MEST 30270 Modern Hebrew Language 4 (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk): an advanced level language course, aiming to provide the student
with additional tools to make a free and creative use of contemporary
Hebrew.
MEST 60510 Middle Eastern Jews Before and After 1948 (Moshe Behar, email: moshe.behar@manchester.ac.uk)
MEST 63001 Transformations in Jewish Identity (Moshe Behar, email: moshe.behar@manchester.ac.uk)
RELT 60112
Holocaust
Theology (Daniel Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
explores a number of theological responses to the Holocaust,
with Jewish and Christian writers including Richard Rubenstein,
Emil Fackenheim, Irving Greenberg, Ignaz Maybaum, Eliezer Berkovits,
Arthur Cohen, Rosemary Ruether, Paul van Buren.
RELT 60172 Modern Jewish Thought (Reuven Silverman, email: silvermanchester@rabbi.co.uk) This module will survey major developments and figures in modern Jewish religious and philosophical thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Both the historical context and intellectual content of diverse Jewish responses to modernity, including Haskalah philosophy, Hasidism, Religious Zionism, Gender and Rabbinics, Modern Orthodoxy and Reform will be studied and responses to the Shoah discussed. Issues such as the nature of law and authority, the relationship between revelation and history, and the challenges of pluralism will be addressed through the perspectives of various thinkers from a diversity of backgrounds.
RELT 70140
Biblical
Hebrew (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of Biblical Hebrew.
Aims primarily to prepare students to undertake the subsequent
study of Bible and make intelligent use of commentaries and
other works which presume a knowledge of Hebrew. Regular written
exercises and oral work in class are crucial. This course will
be enhanced with additional reading and exercises for MA students.
RELT 70380 Hebrew
Texts II (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@manchester.ac.uk):
Explores selected passages from the Hebrew Bible and consideration
of issues of textual, linguistic and exegetical interest arising
from them.
RELT 70911 Early Jewish Novels (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@manchester.ac.uk): The aims of the course are to introduce early Jewish novels,
from Esther and Daniel, especially in their expanded forms,
to 3 Maccabees and the Story of Aseneth, as well as several
others, like Tobit and Judith. Many of these novels have a heady
mix of politics and romance. They address many of the concerns
of Jewish identity in the Second Temple period. Part of the
course will be devoted to the subsequent cultural appropriation
of these novels. Analysis of recent scholarly approaches to
this material will also be undertaken.
RELT 71011 Antisemitism, the Nation and Social Theory
RELT 70921 Israelites and Canaanites (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
this course covers topics such as: Topics such as: The Israelite
conquest of Canaan; Ugarit: A Canaanite City?; The Origin of
Israel's religions; The Move to Monotheism; Canaanite cultic
influences?; Yahweh versus Baal; Yahweh, El and Asherah
RELT 90192 Jewish
Law and the Agunah
(Bernard Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
Commences with an introduction to the Historical, Literary and
Legal Sources of Jewish Law. Reviews the history of marriage,
divorce and succession, then looks in turn at the following
proposed solutions to the problem of the "chained wife"
(the Agunah, whose husband refuses her a divorce).
RELT 90651 Sources,
Resources and Methods in the Study of Judaism (Philip
Alexander, email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk)
compulsory core course
RELT 90811 Jewish
Approaches to Jesus and Paul (Daniel
Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
explores Jewish approaches to Jesus and the apostle Paul, concentrating
on the modern period, and places them in the wider context of
the study of Jewish-Christian relations.
RELT 90922 Dead
Sea Scrolls (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
Explores in depth one aspect of the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
COURSES NOT RUNNING IN 2007/8
MEST 60012 Modern
Hebrew for Graduate Students (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
The course will give students a useful start to the task of
reading books and articles in Hebrew in their field of research.
This will be helpful to PhD and MA students from different areas
of research, e.g. Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Jewish History,
Theology in general and any other area in which the reading
and understanding of Modern Hebrew for scholarly purposes will
be a beneficial tool. Students with no previous knowledge of
Hebrew will be required to take NE1211 Modern Hebrew Language
in Semester 1.
Israel: Conflicts and Cleavages (Oren Soffer, email: oren.soffer@manchester.ac.uk) In recent decades, Israeli society has been experiencing fragmentation and sectorialization processes, which find their expression in ongoing struggles between different social groups regarding the characteristics of the Israeli public sphere and its constitutional characteristics. During the seminar we will discuss these processes and conflicts whilst shedding light on their legal and political-institutional implications. We will discuss the possible conflict that finds expression in the definition of Israel as both a Jewish and a democratic state and between security needs and democratic values. An emphasis will also be given to the examination of cleavages between religious and seculars Jews, Hawks and Doves, Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews and Arab and Jewish citizens.
MEST 60030 Spinoza's
Philosophy and Critique of Religion (Alex Samely, email:
Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Explores the interplay between philosophical system and biblical
criticism in Spinoza as one of the forefathers of modernity.
MEST 60050 Aspects
of Jewish Exegesis and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
(Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk)
MEST 60200 Jewish
Aramaic Texts (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Appreciation of advanced forms of rabbinic discourse through
the detailed study of selected Jewish texts in Aramaic.
MEST 80100 Jewish
Philosophy in the 20th Century (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the conceptual contributions of thinkers of Jewish
orientation including Cohen, Buber, Rosenweig, Fackenheim and
Levinas.
MEST 90132 The
Exegetical Discourse of Classical Judaism (Alex Samely,
email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the literary formats, topics, and hermeneutic methods
of rabbinic Bible interpretation, in particular in the earlier
period (Mishnah and Bereshit Rabba).
MEST 90142 The
Legal Discourse of Classical Judaism (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Explores some of the central concerns, topics, conceptual assumptions
and methods of rabbinic legal discourse, in particular in the
Mishnaic period.
MEST 90810 Gender
Topics in Rabbinic Judaism (Dalia Hoshen: e-mail: dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
The course is concerned with two main gender topics: the status
of women and sexuality. It is based on both talmudic post talmudic
sources, with comparison to non-Jewish parallels where relevant.
The course considers different approaches: political, historical,
feminist and traditional. It will explore women's status in
relation to mitzvot (commandments) and Torah study, and explore
the rabbinic conception of sexuality in the context of the marriage
bond.
MEST 90910 Basic
Principles of Talmudic Discourse (Dalia Hoshen: email: dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
This course introduces students to the dialectics of the Babylon
Talmud (CE 200-500). It commences with a brief introduction
to the Talmud and its sources, and to the structure of the talmudic
sugia. The main text studied will be Bavli Bava Qama (hachovel,
Vilna edition 84b, chap. 8), which deals with corporal injuries.
This sugia exposes us to a combination of concepts regarding
law, human sorrow and shame. The course also uses secondary
literature, in order to develop a critical reading based on
both internal and external criteria.
RELT 60152 The “Jewish Question” in Modern Europe (Sharman Kadish, email: Sharman.Kadish@manchester.ac.uk)This course tackles the question of contemporary Jewish identity from an historical perspective. Classes are based around key ideas which have shaped the Jewish experience - and the European experience of Jews as a minority - over the last 250 years. In this period Jews emerged from the ghettos of Europe and came fact to face with modernity. The course explores both “Tradition” and “Modernity”; the phenomena of Diaspora, Secularization and Migration; and major political ideas, from Liberalism, Enlightenment and Emancipation to Socialism and Zionism. The difficult issue of anti-Semitism as a recurring phenomenon that culminated in the Nazi Holocaust is unavoidable.
RELT 60161 Maimonides: Between the Jewish and Muslim Worlds (Renate Smithuis, email: Renate .Smithuis@manchester.ac.uk) Based there since his thirties, Maimonides led in Cairo his legendary, busy life of physician and community leader. In his spare time he managed to create a number of works on Jewish law and philosophy, the influence of which remained unparalleled in the medieval and early modern Jewish world. He wrote on a variety of disciplines, which included logic, medicine, and astronomy. In addition there survives an extensive correspondence, which allows us a particularly vivid insight into his thoughts and personality. During the course emphasis will be laid on how his writings and thought relate to the larger intellectual environment of his day. Maimonides wrote many of his works in Judaeo-Arabic, and his writings reflect Muslim as well as Jewish learning. The course will address the legacy of Maimonides by considering aspects of his reception within both the Jewish world (particularly the Maimonidean controversy), and medieval Christian Europe.
RELT 90080 Jewish
Ways of Reading the Bible (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Explores how canonic texts function within Judaism, and how
they are creatively adapted to meet changing historical and
social conditions.
RELT 90100 Being Jewish in Britain (Bill Williams): Introduces the empirical study of the Jewish identity in contemporary Britain and to the collection and interpretation of oral testimony.
RELT 90171 Gnosticism
and the Jewish Mystical Tradition (Philip Alexander,
email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the 'canon' of Jewish mystical literature, starting
with Heikhalot mysticism and Jewish Gnosticism in late antiquity,
proceeding chronologically to the Qabbalah (Zoharic, Abulafian
and Lurianic), mediaeval German Hasidism, the Jewish Sufis of
Egypt, Shabbateanism and its offshoots and modern Hasidism.
RELT 90181
Law
and Narrative in the Old Testament (Bernard Jackson,
email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
Introduces biblical law and its relation to biblical narrative.
Examines legal aspects of the pre-patriarchal, patriarchal and
royal narratives; narratives of law giving and adjudication;
narrative elements in the laws themselves, and the relationship
between law, narrative and theology in the Old Testament.
RELT 90241Jewish
Art and Architecture through the Ages (Sharman Kadish
email: Sharman.Kadish@man.ac.uk): Surveys
the artistic output of the Jews from Biblical times to the 21st
century, with particular emphasis on the modern period. The
principal branches of Jewish artistic endeavour will be studied
embracing portable material culture such as Hebrew illuminated
manuscripts and ritual Judaica alongside the architectural development
of the synagogue through archaeological remains and standing
buildings. The course will focus on the emergence of Jewish
artists, architects and craftsmen and their participation in
general European art movements since the 19th century era of
emancipation.
RELT 90452
Readings
in the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud (Philip
Alexander, email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the Babylonian Talmud. Begins by clarifying the origins
of the Talmud in the Rabbinic schools of Babylonia in late antiquity,
and concludes by discussing the influence of the Talmud on the
historical development of Judaism.
RELT 90912 Jewish
Literature of the Early Graeco- Roman Period (George
Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the non-biblical Jewish literature of the late Second
Temple period.
RELT 90980 Archaeology
of Jerusalem and Palestine (John Kane): Studies issues
in the archaeology of Palestine in the Hellenistic and early
Roman periods. The focus is the Jewish State and its identity
as revealed by material remains studied alongside written sources. |
