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RELI1024A-W11

Jewish Thinkers/Big Questions

Jewish Thinkers on Big Questions
What is atonement? How do we human beings confront our own flaws and mistakes? How do we respond to suffering? What is compassion for the “Other”? If there is revelation, can we know what it is? What is divine law? What is commandment? How do Jewish answers to these questions differ from Christian ones? These are perennial, looming questions in Jewish thought, and we will probe them with the help of texts from Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the great medieval thinker Maimonides.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
11233
Subject Code:
RELI
Course Number:
1024
Section Identifier:
A

Course

RELI 1024

All Sections in Winter 2011

Winter 2011

RELI1024A-W11 Seminar (Schine)