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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Intertwined Worlds: Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean Basin
(Spring Semester)
This cluster will focus on the three primary monotheistic religions, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, from Antiquity to the early modern period. The courses
address the complex web of interactions between the religions, with a special
emphasis on their manifestation in the Land of Israel. Students will be exposed
to a variety of materials and methodologies, including archaeology, history,
literature, religious studies, law and the arts.
List of courses:
All courses are MA courses (open to
advanced BA students)
Jerusalem Through The Ages:
The Tangible Past (BA, upon request
can be switched into an MA course)
Dr. Orit Peleg, Prof. Joseph Garfinkel,
Institute of Archeology
Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
in Antiquity (MA)
Prof. Michael Segal, Department of Bible
Contesting the Land: Jews, Christians
and Moslems in Byzantine and Early
Moslem Palestine (MA)
Prof. Oded Irshai, Department of
the History of the Jewish People
and Contemporary Jewry
Athens and Jerusalem: The Nexus
of Philosophy and Religion in the
Late Ancient Mediterranean (MA)
Dr. David Satran, Department of
Comparative Religion
From Jesus to Christ:
The Origins and Development of
Mediterranean Christianities (BA)
Prof. Paula Frederiksen, Department
of Comparative Religion
Religion of Laws: A Fundamental
Jewish Idea and its Christian
Responses (Advanced BA and MA)
Prof. David Flatto, Department of
Jewish Philosophy and Faculty of Law
The Science of Sacrifice (MA)
Dr. Naphtali Meshel, Departments
of Bible and Comparative Religion
Christians, Jews, Samaritans,
Muslims: Cultural Encounters and
Religious Conversion in Medieval
Palestine (ca. 600-1600 CE) (MA;
can be for the BA if necessary)
Prof. Reuven Amitai, Department of
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls (BA and MA)
Prof. Esther G. Chazon, Department
of Hebrew Literature
Judeo-Islamic Musical Intersections
(BA, open to non-music majors)
Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Musicology
Department