HIST449 - GOD&NATURE:JEW THGHT&SCI

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
HIST449 - GOD&NATURE:JEW THGHT&SCI
Term
2016C
Syllabus
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST449401
Meeting times
W 0330PM-0630PM
Meeting location
COLLEGE HALL 311A
Instructors
RUDERMAN, DAVID
Description
Major Jewish ideas and ideologies from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries in the context of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the scientific revolution, and religious skepticism. Topics include Jewish reflections on catastrophe in the post 1492 era. Jewish and Christian stufy of the Kabbala, Lurianic messianism, Sabbatianismn, Hasidism, and cultural developments in the Marano community of Amsterdam.
Course number only
449
Cross listings
JWST449401 RELS422401
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled