JWST 241 - The Land of Israel Before the State of Israel

Semester Offered: Fall
1 1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 241) This course deals with the Holy Land in Jewish (as well as Christian and Muslim) reality and imagination before Zionism. Love of and attachment to the Land in religious texts, poetry, art, literature and music, as well as the tensions between such sentiments and diasporist thought; and the collusions and collisions between and among the communities which claimed these attachments from antiquity through the Ottoman Period. Agnes Veto.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS