CEVRO:d125140 Christian-Jewish Roots - Course Information
d125140 Jewish-Christian Roots of European Civilization
CEVRO Universityfall 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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