d125140 Jewish-Christian Roots of European Civilization

CEVRO University
fall 2021
Extent and Intensity
12/12/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Petr Sláma, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Petr Sláma, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science and International Relations – Departments – President – CEVRO University
Timetable
Mon 17:00–18:20 Učebna 203
Prerequisites
The interrest to learn basic cultural (i.e. religious, philsophical, ethical, and political) determinants of European identity.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand how the Bible in its originally extra-European, Ancinet Near-Eastern Hebrew and later Hellenistic Christian setting has become substrate and framework of Euro-American thinking, culture and politics.
Syllabus
  • Christian civilization, the shifts in the relation between state and religion
  • The canon as an authoritative book and a warrant of collective identity
  • Jewish Bible / Old Testament: the narrative plot and key points
  • Jewish Bible / Old Testament: the archeological evidence of Biblical Israel
  • Jewish Bible / Old Testament: literary and theological characteristics
  • The New Testament: the main plot and its consequences
  • The New Testament: historical, literary and theological characteristics
  • Rabbinic Literature: the historical outline of Judaism after the emergence of Christianity
  • Rabbinic Literature: Talmud and Midrash as basic genres of Rabbinic thinking
  • Judaism and Christianity in history
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BARTON, John, 2020: A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, Penguin
  • ASSMANN, Jan, 2011: Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
  • FINKELSTEIN, Israel & SILBERMAN, Neil Asher, 2001: The Bible Unearthed: Archeology's New Vision of Israel: and the Origins of Its sacred Texts, Free Press: New York
  • HALBWACHS, Maurice, 1992: On Collective Memory, University Of Chicago Press: Chicago
  • THEISSEN, Gerd, 1999, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion, London
  • RÖMER; Thomas, 2015, The Invention of God, Cambridge, Mass
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms fall 2016, fall 2017, fall 2018, fall 2019, spring 2020, summer 2020, fall 2020.
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