JEWISH STUDIES IN THE UK 2000-01

Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester
Website: www.mucjs.org

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Figures for 2000/2001
(Bracketed) figures are from 1999/2000

UNDERGRADUATE

T670 BA with Honours in Hebrew and Jewish Studies (in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies: commencing September 2001)
T654 BA with Honours in Hebrew (in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies: commencing September 2001)
Y300 BA (Hons) in Combined Studies (in the Department of Combined Studies): combining Jewish Studies (from one-third to two-thirds of the programme) with one of eleven other subject areas. No language requirement.
V800 BA with Honours in the Study of Religion and Theology (in the Department of Religions & Theology). No language requirement.
T608 Hebrew may be taken as one of two languages in the BA in Middle Eastern Languages.
TT62 Hebrew may be taken as one of two languages in the BA in Middle Eastern & Modern European Languages.

1ST YEAR

NE 1211: Modern Hebrew Language I (A) (Garside): (9)
NE 1222: Modern Hebrew Language I (B) (Garside): (5)
NE 1710: Introduction to the Contemporary Middle East (Herzig):
TH 1100: The World of the Ancient Israelites (Brooke/Curtis) 34
TH 1140: Biblical Hebrew (Curtis): 3
TH 1190: Introduction to Judaism (Alexander): 45

2ND YEAR
(3rd year students may be allowed one 2nd year course)

NE 2210: Modern Hebrew Language II (Garside): (7)
NE 2220: Introduction to Modern Hebrew Texts (Garside): (1)
NE 2230: Biblical Hebrew Texts I (Healey):
NE 2240: Talmudic Judaism (10 Credits) (Samely):
NE 2250: Readings in the Talmudic Judaism (10 Credits) (Samely):
NE 2260: Comparative Semitic Philology (Healey):
TH 2082: Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (Alexander) 8
TH 2160: Dead Sea Scrolls (Brooke): 11
TH 2170: Hebrew Texts I (Curtis): 2
TH 2180: The Prophetic Literature (Curtis): 17
TH 2350: Jewish Liturgy and Religious Practice (Unterman): 13
TH 2362: The Visual Dimensions of Judaism (Alexander) (alt: TH 2080):
TH 2370: Landmarks in Jewish History (I. Lancaster): 16
TH 2612: Introduction to the History of Jewish-Christian Relations (D. Langton): 15

NE 3200: Jewish Aramaic Texts (Samely):
NE 3210: Modern Hebrew Language III (Garside): (4)
NE 3220: Modern Hebrew Literature (Garside): (3)
NE 3250: Medieval Hebrew Texts (Samely): (2)
NE 3270: Modern Hebrew Language IV (Garside): (3)
NE 3870: Jewish Philosophy in the 20th Century (Samely):
TH 3100: Being Jewish in Britain (Williams): 6
TH 3170: The Mystical Tradition in Judaism (Alexander) 10
TH 3181: Law and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible (Jackson) 13
TH 3191: Jewish Law and Problems of Jewish Life in the Modern World (Jackson) 5
TH 3241: Early Biblical Law: The Mishpatim of Exodus 21-22 (Jackson)
TH 3250: Major Themes in Jewish Theology (Alexander)
TH 3252: Law and Religion in the Modern State of Israel (Jackson)
TH 3380: Hebrew Texts II (Curtis): (5)
TH 3910: Intertestamental Literature (Brooke):
TH 3920: Ancient Israel: Recent Research (Curtis): 10
TH 3990: Special Subject Images/paper: Dead Sea Scrolls:
TH 3991: Archaeology of Jerusalem and Palestine (Kane): (5)
GV 4132: The Holocaust (Jones/Geras):

POSTGRADUATE

MA in Jewish Studies

Sources, Resources and Methods in the Study of Judaism (TH 9650: compulsory core course)
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (TH 9090)
Ancient Israel: Recent Research (TH 9920)
Biblical Hebrew (TH 9140)
Hebrew Texts (TH 9380)
Approaches and Methods in the Study of the Hebrew Bible (TH 9000)
Law and Narrative in the Old Testament (TH 9181)
Intertestamental Literature (TH 9910); not available 1999-2000
Dead Sea Scrolls (TH 9990)
Modern Hebrew Language (NE 1211 + 1212)
Rabbinic Aramaic Texts (NE 3200)
Readings in the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud (TH9452)
The Legal and Exegetical Discourse of Classical Judaism (NE 7680)
Aspects of Jewish Exegesis and Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Texts) (NE 6050)
Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (TH 9080)
The Mystical Tradition in Judaism (TH 9170)
Spinoza's Philosophy and Critique of Religion (NE 6030); not available 1999-2000
Jewish Philosophy in the 20th Century (NE3850)
The Holocaust (GV4132)
Jewish Law and Problems of Jewish Life in the Modern World (TH 9192)
Being Jewish in Britain (TH 9100)
Jewish Approaches to Jesus and Paul (TH9812)

MA in Hebrew

NE 6050 Aspects of Jewish Exegesis and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
NE 7680 The Legal and Exegetical Discourse of Classical Judaism
NE 9200 Jewish Aramaic Texts (see NE 3200)
TH 9452 Readings in the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud
TH 9990 Special Subject Images/paper: Dead Sea Scrolls (see TH 3990)
TH 9380 Hebrew Texts (see TH 3380)

PhD/MPhil - 26 Details of title, student and supervisor are on BAJS Bulletin website.

UNDERGRADUATE:

Basic Judaism course (BA) - 18

POSTGRADUATE:

MA Jewish-Christian Relations - 15 on site; 33 distance
Jewish-Christian Relations: The Foundations and Their Contemporary Significance - 9 on-site; 12 distance
Jewish-Christian Relations in Europe in the Twentieth Century - 8 on-site; 4 distance
Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation - 5 on site; 6 distance
Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust - 6 on-site; 8 distance
Jews and Christians in literature and film - 6

MPhil Jewish-Christian Relations - 2

University of Wales, Lampeter
Website: www.lamp.ac.uk/trs/ 

UNDERGRADUATE:

Introduction to Judaism - 24
Understanding the Holocaust - 35
Wisdom of Judaism - 23
Elementary Hebrew - 10
Hebrew 2nd year - 4
Hebrew Bible - 12
Israel - 26
Judaism and Christianity - 11

POSTGRADUATE:

MPhil - 2
PhD - 6

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Hebrew and Jewish Studies - 20
Bible
Talmud
Midrash
Codes and Responsa
Jewish Thought
Jewish History

POSTGRADUATE:

MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies degree programme - 6
Phd/MPhil (Jewish Studies related) - 3

OTHER COURSES (NON-DEGREE) - 20 (not fte)

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA (Hons) Jewish History & Culture

(TO BEGIN 2001/02) estimated at 20

Jewish Fictions - 45
Holocaust Literature - 50
Making of the Modern Jew - 25
Making of Englishness - 28
Holocaust Inside and Outside of History not running - 12
Jews in Greco-Roman period not running - 28
Foundations of a Persecuting Society - not running
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jesus - 16

POSTGRADUATE:

MA Jewish History and Culture - 8 FT, 6 PT (15)
The History of Jews in Babylonia - 3
Representations of the Holocaust - 6-8
Jews & non-Jews throughout the Ages - 7
Relations between Jews & Non-Jews in the Greco-Roman World - 14
Approaches to Jewish History and Culture - 14

PhD (Jewish Studies related) - 19

POSTGRADUATE:

1 year Post-Grad Diploma in Jewish Studies

Completed 1999-2000 - 18
Registered for 2000-2001 - 24
Biblical Hebrew language - 8
Modern Hebrew language - 10
Yiddish language - 7

A Century of Modern Hebrew Literature 1853-1954 - 5
An Introduction to the Theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls - 6
Introduction to Hebrew Bibliography - 2
Introduction to Jewish Religion and Culture - 14
Introduction to the Pentateuch - 7
Introduction to Talmud - 5
Israeli Government and Politics - 11
Jewish and Christian Bible Translation and Interpretation 100-600- 10
Jewish History 200 B.C.E.-70 C.E. - 11
Jewish Liturgy - 6
Judaism and Islam: An Encounter of Religions in the Middle East - 8
Modern Jewish History - 14
Sociology of Yiddish - 9
Speech & Silence: Methods of Response in Mod Heb Literature - 6
The Holocaust: the Destruction of the Jews of Europe - 10
The Shtetl in Modern Yiddish Literature - 11
The World of Maimonides: an Introductory Course - 10

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Hebrew - 9
BA Jewish History - 28
BA Italian and Jewish Studies - 1
BA German and Jewish Studies - 0
BA Central & Eastern European History and Jewish Studies - 4

A Survey of Jewish History & Culture in First Millenium BCE - 10
A Survey of Jewish History & Culture in First Millenium CE - 10
A Survey of Jewish History & Culture from 1000-1800 - 10
A Survey of Jewish History & Culture from 1800-Present - 10
Elementary Pre-Modern Hebrew - 6
Modern Hebrew Beginners - 10
Modern Hebrew Intermediate - Lower 9 Higher 8
Modern Hebrew Advanced - 12
Advanced Modern Hebrew NewsImages/papers - 10
Biblical Aramaic - 8
Introduction to Kabbalah - 5
Tosefta Targum - 4
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan - 4
Old Testament Prophetic Texts - 5
Introduction to the Babylonian Talmud - 3
Introduction to Syriac - 1
Further Syriac - 1
Hasidism and Modernity - 8
Jews of Soviet Union - 20
The Papacy and the Jews - 20
The Jews and the Classical World - 10
Migration & Transformation, the United States, the USSR and Britain - 10
The Peace Process in Modern Israeli Politics 1967-97 - 12
The Politics of the State of Israel to 1967 - 15
Mystical Aspects of Judaism and Islaam - 8
Selected Topics in Contemporary Israeli Fiction - 5
Feminist Issues in Israeli Women's Fiction - 7
Hebrew Literature and the Holocaust - 5
The Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Israeli Literature and Culture - 7
Yiddish Cinema - 4
Elementary Yiddish - 10
Introduction to ModernYiddish Poetry - 8
Yiddish for Historical Study - 5
History of the Yiddish Language - 3
Selected Topics in Yiddish Literature - 3
Culture or Sephardic Jewry - 7

POSTGRADUATE:

MPhil/PhD (Jewish Studies related) - 28
MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies - 5
MA Modern Israeli Studies - 2
MA Holocaust Studies - 6
Seminars: Introduction to Holocaust Studies - 8
Seminars: Israeli Studies - 4

Figures based on previous years numbers, excluding oriental studies, history, sociology, anthropology, musicology, history of art...

UNDERGRADUATE:

Hebrew and/or Aramaic - 6
Introduction into Life, Thought, Worship of Modern Judaism - 14
Jewish-Christian Relations - 20
Judaism in the Greek and Roman World - 8
Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust - 16
Impact of Holocaust on Contemporary Israeli Lit - 16
Modern Judaism - 5
Worship of Modern Judaism - 13
Jewish Responses to the Holocaust - 16

MPhil Classical Hebrew Studies - 5
MPhil Rabbinical and Medieval Hebrew Studies - 5
PhD (Jewish Studies related) - 10
Hebrew and/or Aramaic (post-grad, incl 3 PhD)

OTHER COURSES (JS STUDIES RELATED):

Law in Judaism (part of an introductory course on religious studies) - 20
Biblical studies (several courses) - 40
The idea of the Holy Land in Judaism (3rd year course) - 8

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Jewish Civilisation degree starts in 2001.

Taking it 'ad hoc' this year - 1
Taking electives - 36

JEST1002 Reading Jewish Cultures - 5
JEST1003 Jewish Histories I: From the Destruction of the Temple to the Expulsion from Spain - 8
JEST1004 Jewish Histories 2: From the Expulsion from Spain to the Modern Period - 15
JEST2001 Jews and Other Differences - 10
JEST2031 Modern Jewish Literature - 2
JEST2201 Talmudic Light on the New Testament - 2
JEST2202 The Ghetto (16th-18th centuries) - 4
JEST2203 Rembrandt and the Bible - 4
JEST3032 Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought - 5
JEST3101 Jewish Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe - 9
JEST3102 Jews into Frenchmen? Identity, Nations and the French Revolution - 4
JEST3200 History and Culture of Premodern Iberian Jewry - 2
JEST3203 Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust - 22

MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies - 4
JEST5001 Readings in Jewish Studies - 4
JEST5010 Modernity and the Jews - 4
JEST5100 The Fall of the Temple in 70CE - NOT RUNNING
JEST5300 Jewish Art in the Early Modern Period - NOT RUNNING
JEST5500 History and Culture of Premodern Iberian Jewry - 2
JEST5600 Jews into Frenchmen? Identity, Nations and the French Revolution - 2
JEST5900 Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust - 10
JEST5910 Jewish Studies Dissertation - 4

MPhil/PhD (Jewish Studies related) - 4

Biblical Hebrew: THEOLOGY
Modern Hebrew: FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING UNIT
Judaism: THEOLOGY
Immigration, Race and Nation: FRENCH
Arab-Israeli wars: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Israel politics: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Jewish Studies (including Intercollegiate)
Hebrew language - 0
Introduction to Judaism - 0
Introduction to Jewish literature - 0
Hebrew grammar - 8
Advanced Bible - 2
Introduction to Talmud - 0
Jewish Law in the Modern World - 5
Comparative Law and Ethics - 4
Introduction to Jewish Thought - 4
Jewish Mysticism - 1
Jewish history (middle-late antiquity) - 8
Jewish history (middle ages) - 1
Judiasm and the Origins of Christianity - 7
Aramaic - 3
Introduction to Jewish Education (only Jew Educ course this year) - 6
Holocaust studies - 1

POSTGRADUATE

MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies:
Midrash - 1
Modern approaches to the Talmud - 3
Jews of Late Antiquity and the Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism - 6
Jewish Medical Ethics - 2
Classical Jewish Philosophy
Aspects of Modern Jewish Philosophy
Women in the Jewish Tradition
The House of Maimonides
European Jewry and the Holocaust
Hassidism and Modernity
Jewish Historiography
Introduction to classical Hebrew
Higher intermediate Hebrew
Advanced Modern Hebrew
Elementary Yiddish
Contemporary Israeli Literature

No of MPhil/PhD students (Jewish Studies related) - 3

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Hebrew and Israeli Studies
BA Jewish Studies
BA Jewish Studies with Jewish Education

Advanced Modern Hebrew
Elementary Hebrew
Elementary pre-Modern Hebrew
Introduction to Classical Hebrew
Introduction to Israeli Culture
Introduction to Judaism
Israel, Europe, America; the 20th C in Jewish Narrative Prose
Jewish Art from Antiquity to the Modern Age
Jews in the Islamic World
Jews in Late Antiquity
Jews in the USSR 1917-1991
Modern Hebrew for Beginners
Modern Hebrew Higher Intermediate
Modern Hebrew Lower Intermediate
Modern Hebrew Poetry
Zionism

POSTGRADUATE:

MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Bible
Hebrew, Aramaic
Rabbinic Lit
Medieval Hebrew Lit
Jewish Philosophy
Jewish History
Modern Hebrew language and lit
Modern Yiddish language and lit
MPhil/PhD (Jewish Studies related)

UNDERGRADUATE:

BA Jewish Studies 10
Biblical Hist
Biblical Religion
Biblical archaeology
Biblical narrative
The Prophets and Prophecy
Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple History
History of the Talmudic Period
Medieval Jewish History
Medieval Jewish Thought
Jewish Aramaic Lit
Haskalah
Jewish History 1750-1948
Modern Jewish Society
State of Israel
Modern Jewish Lit
Yiddish Lit
History of Jewish Christian Relations
History of Jewish Muslim Relations
History of Jewish Bible Interpretation
History of Jewish Mysticism
History of Hebrew Lit

POSTGRADUATE:

MSt in Classical Hebrew - 1
MSt Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period - 0
MSt in Modern Jewish Studies - 0
MPhil Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period - 1
MPhil Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman Period - 1
MPhil in Modern Jewish Studies - 0
MSt in Oriental Studies (tailor-made MSts)
MPhil in Modern Middle East (specialising in Israel) - 4
No of DPhil students (Jewish Studies related) - 20