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Middle Eastern Studies Regional Concentration Courses |
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES REGIONAL CONCENTRATION COURSE |
| Scriptural Reasoning |
| RELJ 375 |
| Peter Ochs |
| The first half of the course will examine how recent Jewish philosophy and theology has turned back to the study of sacred texts. The second half will examine how that turn has engendered another turn: to intensive dialogue with like-minded Christian and Muslim philosophers and theologians. The course will include various methods of study: one-on-one fellowship study, small group study, large group. It will require considerable reading in scriptural texts and in both classical and contemporary commentaries - philosophic and theological. There will be several papers and papers in place of exams. Students are advised to peruse these websites to taste the kind of work the course will undertake: the e-journal of textual reasoning (housed at uva): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/tr/; and the e-journal of scriptural reasoning (created at uva): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/. |
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