28 courses with the subject RELJ, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel in the light of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Emphasizes methods of contemporary biblical criticism. Cross listed as RELC 1210.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 First half of a year-long introduction to biblical Hebrew, using an innovative language-learning approach. Through communicative activities in an immersive environment, students acquire oral and aural capacities naturally, in Hebrew. These capacities enable students to internalize the language and thus achieve the overall course goal: read simple biblical Hebrew prose with immediate comprehension. No Prerequisites.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Second half of a year-long introduction to biblical Hebrew, using an innovative language-learning approach. Through communicative activities in an immersive environment, students acquire oral and aural capacities naturally, internalize the language, and efficiently develop the ability to read biblical Hebrew prose with immediate comprehension. Students read the prose portions of the Book of Jonah and master basic Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Judaism
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Jewish and Muslim communities share a complex history of interaction, spanning from seventh-century Arabia to the present day, and including instances of collaboration as well as moments of violence. Our course examines this dynamic relationship through documentary and literary sources. We focus on points of contact between Muslims and Jews in contexts ranging from battlefields to universities, from religious discourse to international politics.
Effective Date 01/01/2019 What does it mean to construct one’s identity in dialogue with ancient texts and traditions? Can the gap between ancient and contemporary be bridged? Or must texts and traditions born of a remote time and place remain hopelessly irrelevant to contemporary life? This course explores these questions by examining the myriad ways that contemporary Jews balance the complexities of modern life with the demands of an ancient heritage.
Effective Date 02/01/2022 This class is an introduction to Jewish Life in America in its religious and cultural manifestations. Students will become familiar with Jewish texts, holidays, rituals, lifecycle events, philosophical issues, communities and cultural practices as they are encountered NOW.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Description and explanation of the diverse forms of Jewish religious life in America.
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Readings in the prose narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Readings in the poetry of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and poetics. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation.
Effective Date 10/21/2015 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Judaisim.
Effective Date 05/08/2023 This course provides the student with an opportunity to explore a new topic in Jewish Studies
Effective Date 01/01/2018 Responses to the Holocaust
Effective Date 09/21/2020 In this course, we will study the biblical text itself, appreciating it in its own terms but also paying special attention to the ambiguities that activate our own imaginations. Then, we will analyze how fiction, film, and poetry respond to and re-imagine the biblical text-how they might make us think of the biblical text differently (or perhaps shed light on issues that were already there?). Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELJ 3559 topic #40 Bible, Fiction, & Film
Effective Date 08/01/2020 This course offers an introduction into the major themes of Modern Jewish Thought.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 A seminar on the biblical book of Job (with attention to its literary artistry and compositional history) and its subsequent interpretation.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Studies the structure and content of Jewish law in terms of its normative function, its historical background, its theological and philosophical principles, and its role in contemporary society both Jewish and general.
Effective Date 02/01/2025 An exploration of ethical thinking using the resources of the Jewish tradition.
Effective Date 02/05/2018 Prophecy provides the theme for our comparative inquiry into two sacred scriptures (the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible) alongside the rich traditions of Muslim and Jewish interpretive literature. We will consider narratives about specific prophets, medieval debates between and within Muslim and Jewish communities about the status and function of prophecy within their traditions, and modern theoretical approaches to prophecy.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 How might we radically reimagine what Judaism is, was, and could be through queer theory? How does Judaism queer our understanding of what “religion” is? What if we approached Judaism as queer religion? In this course, students will be encouraged to play with these sorts of questions, to rearrange categories and reassemble them into new and unexpected configurations. Rather than focusing on a discrete region or time-period, students will explore Queer Judaism from a multiplicity of genres, media, times, peoples, and places - from Trans Talmud to the AIDS blood mezuzah of Albert J. Winn.
Effective Date 09/26/2024 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Judaism.
Effective Date 03/27/2020 This course provides the student with an opportunity to explore a new topic in Jewish Studies
Effective Date 02/01/2025 This course is built around the “big” questions Jews in the modern period have faced–such as “Who is a Jew?,” “Are there divine commandments?,” “Must a Jew believe anything?,” “Can there be God after Auschwitz?” Each unit will approach a different question from a variety of perspectives and sources–secular and religious–offering tools to understand complexities, acknowledge context, and ask new questions. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELJ 3559 topic #41 Enduring Questions in Judaism
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course is organized around great works in the history of art whose thematic content and historical context intersect with the Jewish experience. Each session focuses on one representative artwork from antiquity to the present to reveal something about Jewish history. Textual sources (biblical, poetic, literary, scholarly) help interpret the artwork. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELJ 3559 topic #39 Judaism in Art
Effective Date 01/06/2012 This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Judaism.
Effective Date 02/23/2015 This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Judaism
Effective Date 12/17/2012 This course provides the student with an opportunity to explore a new topic in Jewish Studies
Effective Date 05/11/2009 This topical course will explore topics in modern Jewish history, from 1948 to the present day.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
