School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies
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Courses Taught Prior to ASU

Undergraduate:

Contemporary Civilization
Philosophy and Religion in the Middle Ages
The Jewish-Christian Encounter from Late Antiquity to the Reformation
Medieval Jewish History from the Gaonic Period to the Expulsion from Spain
Early Modern Jewish History: From the Expulsion to the Emancipation
Medieval Jewish Thought
Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Introduction to Judaism
Major Trends in Modern Judaism
The Modernization of the Jews
Zionism
Women in Judaism
Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Mysticism in Religious Traditions
The Good Life in Western Philosophy and Religion

Graduate:

Political Theories in Medieval Judaism
Rationalism vs. Anti-Rationalism in Medieval Judaism
Medieval Jewish Ethical Literature
Hasidism
The Jewish Enlightenment
Jewish Messianism in the Seventeenth Century: The Sabbatean Movement;
Judaism -- History, Mythic Structure, and Practices
Medieval Jewish Religious Thought
The History of Biblical Interpretation (2 lectures in a team-taught course)

Courses Taught at ASU

Undergraduate:

Western Civilization to 1500
Jewish History from the Bible to 1492
Jewish History from 1492 to 1948
Jews in the Middle Ages
History of Anti-Semitism
The Jews through History
History of Jewish Mysticism
Judaism and Ecology

Graduate:

Medieval Thought
Gender Representation and Lived Experience
Women and the State
History: Methods, Theory and Practice
European Diversity

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