| Title: | Jesus & Ethnicity in Antiquity |
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| Course Section Number: | REL-260-01 |
| Department: | Religion |
| Description: | The ancient Mediterranean world was diverse and interconnected and the literary remains from this region reveal an abundance of what might be called 'ethnic discourse'. In this course, we set out to investigate how ethnic discourse 'works' in the ancient Mediterranean; from Roman perceptions of Greekness and Jewishness, to portrayals of the 'Eastern' border of the Empire and their religious expertise (Judeans as prophets and textual experts, Assyrians as astrologers, Egyptians as ritual experts, etc.), to the ways in which the distinction between Judeans and Gentiles impacts the theology of Paul and the telling of Jesus' ministry in Matthew and John, and how early Christians entered into this landscape as they triangulate their own identity, even ethnically. In thinking about early Christian identity and ethnic reasoning, we will focus on how Jesus' Jewishness was variously conceptualized in the early centuries: from an ethnically neutral 'soul' in contrast to an ethnic body, to the idea of polymorphism, and even how Jesus' relationship with his people's law tradition is remembered and presented. Throughout, we will keep our critical eyes peeled for ways in which ancient ethnic discourse varies from and intersects with modern conceptions of race and racism. This course is a cross-listing between REL-260 and REL-298. Students who register for the course as REL-298 can apply it toward the Behavioral Science requirement. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 15, 2024 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2024 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/16/2024-05/02/2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Center Hall, Room 300
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| Faculty: | Campbell, Warren |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 25 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 13 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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