| Title: | Parables Jewish & Christ Trad |
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| Course Section Number: | REL-296-01 |
| Department: | Religion |
| Description: | REL-296 = HUM-296: Parables in Jewish and Christian Traditions. This discussion-based course examines the parable as a distinctive literary form employed by Jews and Christians to engage moral and theological truths. Parabolic stories are imaginative word images used to deepen and disrupt conventional theological and moral perceptions. The course investigates how parables work as language and story, who employs them and for what purpose, how readers deploy and defend against them, and why religious traditions worth their salt both need and resist them. Among the ancient and modern Jewish and Christian parablers studied are Jesus and the Gospel writers, the Rabbis and Hasidim, Kierkegaard and Kafka, Wiesel, Buber, Fackenheim, and Crossan. We also examine the visual parables of Holocaust survivor and painter Samuel Bak and the film "Fight Club." The course engages in the study of literature, language, Jewish and Christian theology, art, film, and religious responses to the Holocaust. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/15/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Center Hall, Room 304
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| Faculty: | Phillips, Gary |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 10 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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