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Jun 16, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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RELG 018B. Modern Jewish Thought Is modern reason compatible with biblical revelation? Beginning with the heretic Spinoza, we’ll examine the giants of Jewish thought- religious reformers, philosophers, and theologians wrestling with the challenge of modernity, politics, and multiculturalism. Topics will include: the essence of Judaism, the nature of law, religion and state, God and evil, the status of women and non- Jews, the legacy of the Holocaust. Readings from: Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Judith Plaskow, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion
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