History of the Jews since A.D. 70

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A social, cultural, theological, and political study of the Jewish people in the last two millennia. The course examines the influence and victimization of the Jews in Diaspora, giving special attention to such issues as the development of sacred texts; the rise of Christian-anti-Semitism; ghettoization and Enlightenment of European Jewry; the development of Hassidic, Reform, Conservative and Reconstruction Judaism; philo-Semitism; political anti- Semitism; Zionism; the Holocaust; the establishment and maintenance of the State of Israel; and dispensationalism. Part of a three-year cycle in European history. Three semester hours.