Course Syllabus

RELGH212 JERUSALEM: CITY, HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION Spring 2014 Tuesday/Thursday 8:30am-‐10am Hall 106 Naomi Koltun-‐Fromm Hall 104 tel: 610-‐896-‐4975 [email protected] DUE: 5:00pm, January 29, 2014 Description: In this course we examine the 3000-‐year history of Jerusalem as well as study Jerusalem as religious and mythological symbol and try to determine how the two have interacted over the centuries. We will study history, representation and lived experience through the lens of religious pilgrimage and religious attachment to the city. Readings will be drawn from ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary sources as well as material culture and art. This year, in conjunction with this course, a field study to Jerusalem is being offered after the semester ends. (May 22-‐ June 3, 2014). All participants in the field study must be currently enrolled in this course, be a full-‐time Bryn Mawr or Haverford student, or have taken this course previously. Please keep in mind that students can take the course without going on the field study, and that current or previous enrollment in RELGH 212 does not guarantee a spot on the field study. The purpose of the travel to Jerusalem is to deepen students’ understanding of the religious history and nature of Jerusalem as well as to build stronger interest in Jerusalem as a site of future engagement and research. As the May 2014 Jerusalem Field Study involves travel to areas under a US State Department Travel Warning, all applicants are encouraged to discuss this proposed travel with family and friends before submitting an application. The June 2013 Travel Warning can be found here: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_6010.html Application In order to participate in the trip, submit the following application by link (http://forms.haverford.edu/view.php?id=75788)
to Naomi Koltun-‐Fromm ([email protected]) with a copy to Chloe Tucker ([email protected]). Please include a color scan of your passport (this is to expedite the ticket purchasing for selected students). Applications are due Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 5:00pm Book List Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography Readings on Moodle Requirements: 1. Read all materials in a timely fashion such that one can participate actively in all class discussions 2. one short paper/midterm 3. One longer research paper 4. A variety of in class presentations and response papers Schedule (can be changed at last minute—keep posted on moodle) Date Reading Assignment Other assignments 1. T Jan 21 Introduction What is Jerusalem? 2. TH Jan 23 Sacred Space MD: Eliade, “The symbolism of Response paper: what is sacred space? the Center,” JZ Smith, “Earth What is myth or spirituality here? and Gods,” 3. T Jan 28 Pilgrimage 1 ER: “pilgrimage,” Morinis, Response paper: what is pilgrimage? “Sacred Journeys”; Frank, How does it interact with history, “Pilgrimage” myth and spirituality? 4. TH Jan 30 Pilgrimage 2 Frank, “The Pilgrim’s Gaze in the Age before Icons,”, Neis, “God-‐gazing” 5. T Feb 4 Jewish Jerusalem: Montefiori, 3-‐132; RP: Condense, or respond to M’s history history of Jewish Jerusalem. Does he write “straight” history? 6. TH Feb 6 Jewish Jerusalem: Where Heaven and Earth Meets, temple, architecture, urban 1Kings-‐Josephus space 7. T Feb 11 Jewish Jerusalem: Ezekiel, Jubilees, Josephus, RP: what does Jerusalem mean to myth Aristeas, rabbinic, Alexander, these folks? Where’s the myth? How “Omphalos” does it function? 8. TH Feb 13 Christian Jer: Montefiori, 133-‐174; history 9. T Feb 18 Christian Jer: CHS Ben Dov, 136-‐166 (on Moodle) RP: combine Ben Dov and Montefiori into one history (again look for history and myth) 10. TH Feb 20 Christian Jer: Jacobs, Eusebius, pilgrim texts pilgrimage 11. T Feb 25 Moslem Jer: Montefiori, 177-‐213; history 12. TH Feb 27 Moslem Jer: Ben Dov, 169-‐187; Rosen-‐
RP combine your histories of Moslem Noble Sanctuary Ayalon Jerusalem (look for history and myth) 13. T Mar 4 Moslem Jer: Myth Peters, Hassan, Ibn Ishaq, Mourad 14. TH Mar 6 midterm “A short history of Jerusalem” Mid term: in 5 pages write a history or thought piece about Jerusalem, perhaps answering again: What is Jerusalem. Try to differentiate for yourself between “history” and “myth” and how you see them interacting in Jerusalem through the ages. Spring Break Spring Break Midterm due Monday March 17th 8pm. 15. T Mar 18 Apoc Jerusalem 1 16. TH Mar 20 Apoc Jer and Religious violence 17. T Mar 25 Religious violence 18. W Mar 26 Religion and Violence Seminar 6-‐8p with dinner 19. TH Mar 27 Crusader Jerusalem 20. T Apr 1 Medieval Jerusalem 21. TH Apr 3 Ottoman to British and western Christian interests 22. T Apr 8 Representation 23. TH Apr 10 Representation in art T April 15 Passover 24. TH Apr 17 History, Myth and Memory 25. T Apr 22 Contemporary Jerusalem 1 26. TH Apr 24 Contemporary Jerusalem 2 27. T Apr 29 28. TH May 1 Sat May 10th (Seniors) 5pm Fri May 16th (everyone else) noon Limor, Collins, Apoc texts Josephus, sefer zerubavel, Crusader texts Tamara Neuman, guest Readings TBD Readings TBD Montefiori, 214-‐283 Ben Dov Crusaders Montefiori, 287-‐300; texts Paper topic due Montefiori, 303-‐325; 329-‐387; Ben Dov, 243-‐297, 1 pg paper proposal with annotated bibliography due Vester,, Amos Oz, Nuseibeh Kuhnel, Ruben, Rosovsky, Grabar No class Daniel Weiss on Saint Chapelle Reading TBD Montefiori, 391-‐467; Ben Dov, 301-‐376 Montefiori, 468-‐544, Oral presentations Oral presentations Drafts due Final paper due in hard and e-‐copy to me

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