Welcome to the course Jewish-Christian Roots of European Civilisation. We shall trace together the roots of ambiguous European identity. Besides lectures and discussions in the classes, there will be individual reading of texts and some questions to it. 
To complete the course, You have to take active part in the classes + to answer the questions in this virtual classroom + to take part in the written examination at the end of the course. The final grade will be the averaged results of the homeworks and the result of this examination.


Recommended literature:

• ASSMANN, Jan, 2011: Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination, Cambridge University Press: Cambridg
• BARTON, John, 2020: A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, Penguin
• 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
• RÖMER; Thomas, 2015, The Invention of God, Cambridge, Mass
• THEISSEN, Gerd, 1999, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion, London