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• JSTU 230: Introduction to Judaism

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Overview of Jewish experiences, beliefs, practices from a contextual point of view. FS: 06/07/2017.
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• JSTU 242: Language and Humor

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Explores language and humor, looking at (i) the linguistic structure and psychology of humor, (ii) changing societal standards for humor, (iii) racial, ethnic, religious, and gender-based humor, and (iv) socio-political questions surrounding the use of these. FS: 09/14/2022.
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• JSTU 301: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Modern study of the Hebrew Bible from historical, literary, and archeological points of view. Reading and analysis of texts in translation. FS: 02/04/2015. CL: 2020.
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• JSTU 373: Lit & FIlm of the Holocaust

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Film, poetry and literature created in response to the Holocaust as the means for a decades long cultural discussion, in European and American societies, of the moral and religious implications of the Holocaust on our self-understandings as religious and moral beings. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. FS: 10/06/2021.
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• JSTU 381: Jewish Hist:Antiquity to 1500

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  The religious, cultural, social, and political conditions that shaped the Jewish experience in the Near East and Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500.
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• JSTU 382: Jewish Hist II:1500 to Present

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Case studies of Jewish history in Europe, America, and the land of Israel, 1500 to the present.
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• JSTU 387: Jews and Muslims

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Jewish-Muslim relations in the Near East and the US; an exploration of Jewish-Muslim encounters, issues of religious law, politics, radical religious ideologies, and their repercussions for today. CL: 2020.
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• JSTU 388: Kabbalah

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Historical investigation of kabbalah, a philosophical system and mystical current common to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, from the medieval period to the present; focus on its formative role in early modern Western cosmology and science, and its ecological implications today. FS: 11/04/2020.
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• JSTU 471: American Jewish History

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Examination of experiences of Jews in the United States from Colonial Period to late 20th century, especially Jewish immigration, political behavior, social mobility, religious affiliation, group identity formation, and meaning of Anti-Semitism in American and global contexts. FS: 04/02/2014. CL: 2020.
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• JSTU 475: Visions of Apocalypse

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Symbolic visions, tours of heaven and hell, cosmic battles, divine judgment, messianic figures, prophecy, or other forms of revelation as found in literature, art, or social movements from diverse geographical and historical locations. FS: 11/2/2016. CL: 2020.
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