The Teaching Company: Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 24 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 128 kbps | 673 Mb

What is it like to practice your faith in an environment dominated by another? To evolve as a people when all of the world around you moves to religious and cultural rhythms very different from your own? To maintain your unity as a living community—and always to be aware of that sense of community—even when your numbers have been scattered across many lands, without a common government, a common country, or even a common language?
Moreover, how might these circumstances affect not only your own history, but also the history of those other cultures through which you move? What might you take from them? What might you give them?
For 10 formative centuries, the answers to questions like these helped define a developing Judaism, whose history was forever affected by its encounters with the surrounding social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of both medieval Islam and Christendom. As a result of those encounters, new pathways of philosophical inquiry and religious spirituality would be formed. The Hebrew language would find new ways of artistic expression. And the role of Jews in the life of the surrounding community would be changed forever, sometimes even increased, as was the paradoxical case in Italy, by the very ghettoization meant to keep them isolated.
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Taught by: David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvaniam, Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Course Lecture Titles
1. On Studying Jewish History
2. The Rabbinic Legacy prior to Islam
3. The Beginnings of Jewish Life under Islam
4. Baghdad and the Gaonic Age
5. Saadia Gaon and His World
6. The Philosophy of Saadia Gaon
7. The Rise of the Spanish Jewish Community
8. Judah ha-Levi’s Cultural Critique
9. Moses Maimonides’s Philosophy of Judaism
10. Jewish Beginnings in Christian Europe
11. The Church and the Jews prior to 1096
12. The Crusades and the Jews
13. Patterns of Jewish Culture—Rabbinic Learning
14. Patterns of Jewish Culture—Kabbalah
15. Patterns of Jewish Culture—German Pietism
16. The Medieval Jewish-Christian Debate
17. Understanding Medieval Anti-Semitism
18. Notes on the Medieval Jewish Family
19. The Decline and Expulsion of Spanish Jewry
20. Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Period
21. Kabbalah and Society in 16th-Century Safed
22. Shabbetai Zevi—The Mystical Messiah
23. The Rise of Eastern European Jewry
24. The Sephardim of Amsterdam

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