Courses – Spring 2024

Course listings as of October 10, 2023. Course offerings and times may change.
Please check the Website of the Registrar’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for updated information.

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General Education

Biblical and Ancient

Aramaic: Translation and Paraphrase in Later Aramaic

ARAMAIC 251B / HDS 4116

Course Head: Andrew Teeter

Instructor: TBA

Topics in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exegesis at Qumran

JEWISHST 149 / HDS 1309

Andrew Teeter

NEW COURSE

Messianism in Early Judaism and Christianity

JEWISHST 204 / RELIGION 1048 / HDS 1732

Annette Reed, David Stern

NEW COURSE

Beyond the Canon: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Other Outside Books

RELIGION 1317 / HDS 1563

Annette Reed

Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature

RELIGION 1232 / HDS 1416

Jon Levenson

Northwest Semitic Inscriptions

SEMPHIL 220R / HDS 1160

Course Head: Andrew Teeter

Instructor: TBA

Classical and Medieval Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

NEW COURSE

Sources of Jewish Spirituality

HDS 1649

David Wolpe

Modern Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

Jews, Humor, and the Politics of Laughter

COMPLIT 166 /  YIDDISH 166

Saul Zaritt

NEW COURSE

Advanced Studies in Modern Hebrew

MOD-HEB 240R

Romy Neumark

Gender and Judaism in Modern America

RELIGION 1256 / HDS 2050

Ann Braude

Hebrew (Classical and Modern) and Yiddish Language

Elementary Classical Hebrew II

CLAS-HEB AB/ HDS 4010B

Course Head: Andrew Teeter

Instructor: TBA

Intermediate Classical Hebrew II

CLAS-HEB 120B/ HDS 4021

Course Head: Andrew Teeter

Instructor: TBA

Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew II

CLAS-HEB 130BR/ HDS 1626

Course Head: Andrew Teeter

Instructor: TBA

Elementary Modern Hebrew II

MOD-HEB BB/ HDS 4015B

Instructor: Ran Bechor

Intermediate Modern Hebrew II

MOD-HEB 120B/ HDS 4041

Instructor: Ran Bechor

Advanced Modern Hebrew II

MOD-HEB 130B/ HDS 4043

Instructor: Ran Bechor

Elementary Yiddish II

YIDDISH AB

Sara Feldman

Intermediate Yiddish II

YIDDISH BB

Sara Feldman

Advanced Yiddish I

YIDDISH CA

Sara Feldman

Jewish Law (Harvard Law School)

Courses relevant to Jewish studies

NEW COURSE

The Seleucid Empire

CLS-STDY 180

Paul Kosmin

Religious Dimensions in Human Experience

RELIGION 16 / HDS 3160

David L. Carrasco

NEW COURSE

The Bible and Human Sexuality  

RELIGION 44

Benjamin Dunning

The Holocaust and the Churches, 1933-45

RELIGION 1529 / HDS 2293

Kevin madigan

The Holocaust in Polish Memory and Culture

SLAVIC 171

Aleksandra Kremer