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Aug 31, 2024
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College Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CLAS 145 - Pagans, Christians and Jews in Classical Antiquity: Cultures in ConflictCross-Listed as This course studies the interaction of Jewish, Christian, and pagan cultures, and the protracted struggle for self-definition and multi-cultural exchange this encounter provoked. The course draws attention to how the other and cultural and religious difference are construed, resisted, and apprehended. Readings include Acts, Philo, Revelation, I Clement, pagan charges against Christianity, Adversus Ioudaios writers, the Goyim in the Mishna, and apologetic literature. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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