MENA372B

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This course surveys scriptures and stories, wisdom texts, histories and apocalyptic visions that Jews living in the Persian and later Greco-Roman worlds produced and circulated in Second Temple period (539 BCE -135 CE). Examining Jewish history and writings of the Second Temple period is key to understanding an important time not only in Jewish religious formation but also the emergence of early Christianity, first as a Jewish sect and later, as a separate religion.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

CE - CL (Cross Listed), GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GE - T2-HUM (Tier 2 Humanities), GEED - EPHUM (Gen Ed: EP Humanist)

Two courses from Tier One, Traditions and Cultures (TRAD 101,102,103,104).