JWC3620 - Radical Rabbis: Literature, Theology and Imagination

Leader: Melanie Landau

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

As for JWC2620

Objectives

As for JWC2620, with the additional objectives that students will be able to:

• demonstrate a greater level of sophistication and independence in their engagement with primary sources and the questions which they pose; and a deeper understanding of the theoretical issues that underpin the course.
• apply the reading and interpretative skills they have learned to unseen texts of the authors to be studied.
• formulate and develop an independent research question which is grounded in a reading and analysis of primary sources

Assessment

As for JWC2620

Contact hours

1-hour lecture followed by a 90 minute seminar

Prerequisites

First year sequence in Jewish Civilisation or Religion and Theology or Philosophy; or 12 points at level 2 in Jewish Civilisation or Religion and Theology or Philosophy; or by special permission

Prohibitions

JWC2620