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Master of Arts (M.A.); Jewish Studies (Non-Thesis) (45 credits)

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Offered by: Jewish Studies     Degree: Master of Arts

Program Requirements

All students pursuing this option must take JWST 699. The remaining credits will normally include 15 credits in two of the following areas and 12 credits in the third: Jewish Thought, Jewish History, and Jewish Literature. The substitution of credits in related disciplines outside of Jewish Studies may be permitted if appropriate. The coursework will be adjusted to the applicant's academic background.

Required Course (3 credits)

  • JWST 699 Research in Jewish Studies (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Practical problems and resources related to research and key theoretical debates in the field will be discussed.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Complementary Courses (42 credits)

Students will normally take 15 credits in two of the following areas and 12 credits in the third.

Jewish Thought (12-15 credits)

  • JWST 504 Seminar in Jewish Thought (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Examination of a theme or philosopher in the history of Jewish thought with particular attention to the intersections between Jewish thought and other intellectual traditions (e.g. Greek, Islamic, Christian, etc.)

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Note: Readings in English
  • JWST 510 Jewish Bible Interpretation 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The issues, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation between the Biblical and Talmudic eras: Bible interpretation in the Bible; in Greco-Roman Jewish literature; in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Targumim, and Talmudim; early Samaritan interpretation, Bible interpretation in ancient synagogue art, and in the massoretic literature.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512

  • JWST 511 Jewish Bible Interpretation 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The issues, problems, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval, renaissance, early modern, and modern times. Interpretation in the Geonic, Ashkenazi, Sefardic, North African, Italian, European, Yemenite, North American and Israeli centres of Jewish Learning.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Winter)

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512

  • JWST 542 Abraham Ibn Ezra as Parshan (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 543 Maimonides as Parshan (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Biblical Interpretation in the Guide of the Perplexed and related writings.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Requires Departmental approval
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 540
  • JWST 544 Nachmanides as Parshan (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The interpretative issues and procedures of Nachmanides. Torah commentary examined in the context of rabbinic and kabbalistic Bible interpretation.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 555 The Bible in Jewish Philosophy (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : This course will explore the interplay between systematic thought and hermeneutics by examining how representative modern Jewish philosophers have read the Bible. Among figures to be discussed are: Nahman Krochmal, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, and A.J. Heschel.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 556 Modern Parshanut 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : A specialized study of one aspect of modern Jewish Bible interpretation.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 560
  • JWST 558 Topics: Modern Jewish Thought (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 604 Topics: In Jewish Thought (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Tutorial in Jewish thought.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 661 Study of a Biblical Character (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Advanced level seminar devoted to the evolving interpretation of one or more biblical characters as they appear in the Jewish and cognate interpretative literatures. Emphasis will be on the evolving nature of the interpretation in varied religious and intellectual contexts.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Jewish History (12-15 credits)

  • HIST 655 Tutorial (6 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    History : If a seminar is not available in a field judged necessary to complete the program, candidates may (with the consent of their Director of Studies and that of the Chair of the Graduate Committee) do tutorial work to replace a seminar.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • HIST 677D1 Seminar: European Jewish History (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    History : .

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)

  • HIST 677D2 Seminar: European Jewish History (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    History : See HIST 677D1 for course description.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: HIST 677D1

    • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 677D1 and HIST 677D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

  • JWST 585 Tutorial: Eastern European Studies 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 586 Tutorial: Eastern European Studies 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 602 East European Jewish History 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : (1500 - 1800) Studies on specific issues and problems related to the social and cultural history of the Jews in Eastern Europe.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 603 East European Jewish History 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : (1500 - 1800) Studies on specific issues and problems related to the social and cultural history of the Jews in Eastern Europe.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Jewish Literature (12-15 credits)

  • JWST 502 Modern lsraeli Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : A review of the master texts of Israeli literature from the modern period.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
    • Knowledge of Hebrew required
  • JWST 510 Jewish Bible Interpretation 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The issues, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation between the Biblical and Talmudic eras: Bible interpretation in the Bible; in Greco-Roman Jewish literature; in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Targumim, and Talmudim; early Samaritan interpretation, Bible interpretation in ancient synagogue art, and in the massoretic literature.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512

  • JWST 511 Jewish Bible Interpretation 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The issues, problems, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval, renaissance, early modern, and modern times. Interpretation in the Geonic, Ashkenazi, Sefardic, North African, Italian, European, Yemenite, North American and Israeli centres of Jewish Learning.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Winter)

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512

  • JWST 520 Bible Interpretation in Antiquity (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 521 Bible in Dead Sea Scrolls (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 530 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Supervised research in Yiddish literature. Work will focus on one genre, literary school or author.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 531 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Supervised research in Yiddish literature. Work will focus on one genre, literary school or author.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 532 Narrative Midrash (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 533 Halakhic Midrash (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Supervised research in Yiddish literature. Work will focus on one genre, literary school or author.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 534 Homiletic Midrash (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The issues and techniques of early rabbinic preaching and teaching the Bible as they emerge from a close reading of homiletical midrashic texts.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 535 Exegetic Midrash (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 536 Readings: Aramaic Bible Translation (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 537 The Bible in the Talmud Bavli (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 538 Early Rabbinic Parshanut 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Advanced level work on one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in late antiquity.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 541 Medieval Ashkenazi Parshanut (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Issues, techniques and texts of Jewish Bible study in medieval France and Germany; Rashi, Qara, Rashbam, the Tosafists, etc.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 546 Innovative Medieval Parshanut (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The dynamics of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval times and the attempts by various authors to read the Bible as an independent Hebrew document, not only in the light of the pre-medieval rabbinical exegetical tradition.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 547 Mystical Biblical Interpretation (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 548 Medieval Parshanut (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Advanced level work in one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval times.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 550 The Bible in Hebrew Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Biblical themes, issues, and characters as they emerge from a comparison of Scripture and various Hebrew essays, poems, plays, short stories and novels of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Readings in Hebrew
  • JWST 551 20th Century Parshanut (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 554 Modern Jewish Biblical Scholarship (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The past two centuries have witnessed the active participation of many Jewish writers in the academic enterprise of Bible scholarship. This course will explore the writings of a selection of European, American, and Israeli writers and the roles they have played in archaeological, philological, historical, literary and other critical endeavours.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 555 The Bible in Jewish Philosophy (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : This course will explore the interplay between systematic thought and hermeneutics by examining how representative modern Jewish philosophers have read the Bible. Among figures to be discussed are: Nahman Krochmal, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, and A.J. Heschel.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 556 Modern Parshanut 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : A specialized study of one aspect of modern Jewish Bible interpretation.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 560
  • JWST 571 Biblical Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 572 Aggadah in Modern Scholarship (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The nature of aggadah in modern historical scholarship. Modern historical scholarship, beginning with Krochmal, Rappoport and Hayyot down to Heinemann, Stern and Boyarin, on the "problem" of midrash aggadah.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 573 History of Hebrew Bible Text (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The text of the Hebrew Bible as it evolved between antiquity and the most recent printed edition. Attention will be given to the accurate reconstruction of the Bible from primary and secondary witnesses: Greek and Aramic translations, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient quotations, and the Massoretic notes and lists.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 507
  • JWST 574 Bible in Responsa Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : The interpretation of the Bible as it emerges from the treatment received in rabbinic responsa literature between early post-talmudic times and today. Great emphasis is placed on doing original work with the responsa, their texts and their sources.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Requires Departmental approval
  • JWST 575 Topics in Parshanut (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : Advanced level work in one aspect of Jewish Bible Interpretation that cuts across all periods of Jewish Bible interpretation.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 581 Aramaic Language (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Requires Departmental approval
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 506
  • JWST 582 Hebrew and Aramaic Philology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 587 Tutorial in Yiddish Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 588 Tutorial in Yiddish Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Jewish Studies

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • JWST 615 Literary Analysis of Hebrew Fiction (3 credits)

    Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Jewish Studies : A methodological examination of contemporary Hebrew narratives with particular attention to literary structures and narrative form.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Note: Readings in English
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