REL 2218 - Introduction to Judaism

Credits: 4
This course will focus on Judaism and its 3,500-year heritage of ethical monotheism. It examines the religion’s narrative core and phases of development, focusing on how it adapted over millennia to maintain its broader cultural relevance despite its smaller number of adherents. Religious concepts and beliefs, primary and interpretive texts, cycles of observances, ritual practices, conceptions of time and space, symbols, values, and Judaism’s wider impact are covered. Contemporary varieties of Judaism, and in particular the faith’s American Jewish context, are also analyzed.
McDaniel Plan: International, Textual Analysis