RLST 124G: Modern Jewish Thought: Classical Sources and Modern Influences

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; consulta- tion/reading, 1 hour

Catalog page 396

Prerequisites: none

Description: Major modern thinkers including Buber, Rosenzweig, Kaplan, and Heschel among others will be studied in light of their inspirations from the Talmudic, philo- sophic, and mystical literatures of the Jewish past and in response to the impact of Christian and secular thought of the present.