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Great world religions Judaism
2003

DVD

Contains 12 lectures of thirty minutes each, which survey the history, traditions, and practice of Judaism from biblical times to today, with explanations of the major aspects of Jewish culture. Focuses on Judaism from within and how it is understood by its adherents, past and present. Covers topics such as the sacred books of Judaism, modes of worship, the calendar and holidays, and rites of passage such as bar and bat mitzva and marriage. Illustrates how Judaism reinvented itself by embracing the rabbinical tradition after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. and considers the thinking of philosophers such as Maimonides.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781565857964
  • 1565857968

Description: 2 videodiscs (360 min.), +one guidebook (ii, 86 pages, 19 cm, bibliography)

Other Title: Judaism

Notes:

  • Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
  • Lecturer, Isaiah M. Gafni, Sol Rosenbloom Professor of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • DVD ; NTSC.

Contents:

  • lecture 1. What is Judaism?
  • lecture 2. The stages of history
  • lecture 3. The Jewish library
  • lecture 4. The emergence of Rabbinic Judaism
  • lecture 5. Jewish worship, prayer and the synagogue
  • lecture 6. The calendar, a communal life-cycle
  • lecture 7. Individual life-cycles
  • lecture 8. God and man, God and community
  • lecture 9. Philosophers and mystics
  • lecture 10. The legal frameworks of Judaism, Halakha
  • lecture 11. Common Judaism, or a plurality of Judaisms?
  • lecture 12. Judaism and "others.".

Publisher or Distributor Number:

  • 6103
  • PD6103

Control Number: 3429299

Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2003
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