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107-015 Aspects of Judaeo-Christianity | |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Geoffrey Jenkins |
Prerequisites | 131-287/387/069 Histories of God, 104-226/326/107-103 Religious Movement or 107-012 Visualising Beliefs (Classics and Archaeology) |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | The subject comprises twelve two-hour seminars dealing with various topics concerned with early Christianity in a Jewish setting, with particular reference to Hellenistic influences over both religious movements. The emergence of Christianity and its transition from Jewish sectarian movement into an independent religion involved profound rethinking of the essential foundations of Judaism. This process involved not so much a rejection of Judaism as an exploitation of the diversity of Judaism of the time. This subject studies this diversity in detail, and considers the way in which it led to the emergence of a distinct and essentially non-Jewish offshoot. |
Assessment | A seminar paper of 2000 words, and an essay of 3000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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