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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
melton blended masters in jewish education
Semester:
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
marc hirshman
Coordinator Office Hours:
m 1615-17
Teaching Staff:
Prof Marc Hirshman
Course/Module description:
Reading key texts on education in Rabbinic literature and comparison to Greco-roman and Christian paideia.
Course/Module aims:
The course is designed to engage extended texts on education in rabbinic literature, facilitate a deep reading of them and compare them to Christian, Persian and Greco-Roman texts on education
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Facility in reading rabbinic texts
2. Conceptuialization of the aims of ancient education
Attendance requirements(%):
90
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lecture,discussion of primary texts and readings and group study.
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction
2. Yohanan b. Zakkai and his Students
Sources: Mishna Avot chapter 2-3
3. “Torah Above All”
Sources: Mishna Peah 1,1; Tosefta Peah 1, 1-4. Plotinus' Life of Plotinus
4. Deuteronomy, Sifre Deuteronomy and the Culture of Learning
Sources: Sifre Deuteronomy 41, 48-49, 306
5. A Life of Learning
Sources: Leviticus Rabbah 19, 1-3
Reading:
6. A Talmudic Primer for Education
Sources: bEruvin 53a-55a
7. Reading: Susan Handelman, ‘Make yourself a teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples’, University of Washington 2011, pp. 18-38.
8. Cultures in Conflict
Sources : bAvoda Zara 18b-19b
Readings:
9. Tal Ilan, “Learned Jewish Women in Antiquity” in Beate Ego et al, Religiöses
Lernen usw (Tübingen 2005) pp. 1-19
10. Elementary Education
Sources: bBava Batra 20b-22a;
11. Hevruta
Sources: bTaanit 7a-8a
Readings: e. Holzer. “Hevruta”
12. Sources: bHorayot 13a-14a; pHorayot 3:8 (48b-c pp. 1429-1432 )
Readings: J. Rubenstein, Talmudic Stories pp. 176-211
13. Blessings over Torah Study
Reading:
14. God Studies Torah
Reading :
Required Reading:
-Judah Goldin, " A Philosophical Session in a Tannaite Academy"
-P. Cox, The Holy Man inn Late Antiquity, pp. 102- 117
- H. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity pp 284- 291
- M. Satlow, “And on the Earth You Shall Sleep”: Talmud Torah and Rabbinic Asceticism’, Journal of Religion 83 (2003) pp 204-225.
-Lucian, Philosophies for Sale, In L. Casson, Selected Satires of -Lucian pp. 315-333
- Nathan Morris, The Jewish School, pp. 112- 124
-Revealing Manuscripts: Blessing over Torah Study in J. Kulp and J. Rogoff, Reconstructing Talmud NY 2014, pp. 263- 288.
Additional Reading Material:
Yun Lee Too , "Writing the History of Ancient Education" pp. 1-20
S. Fraade, From Tradition to Commentary pp. 105-121
S Rawidowicz, Studies in Jewish Thought
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 50 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 10 %
Other 0 %
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