RLB81 Jerusalem in Religious Confrontation

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Dalibor Papoušek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
each even Thursday 7:30–9:05 G23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course consists in comparative approach to various types of mythmaking and ideologization about Jerusalem in ancient times. The course includes not only main features of the Israelite, Jewish, and Christian understanding the Holy City but also distinguishes various streams within each of mentioned religious traditions. A detailed historical description of each proposed topic is only a starting point for further developing the general theme of religious symbolization. The course follows different levels of the problem – from a military capture of Jerusalem to its superhuman usurpation in a retrospective way, from the collapse of the city to its different heavenly projections.
Main objectives of the course:
At the end of this course, the students should:
- be familiar with the detailed factual knowledge of the ancient history of Jerusalem;
- have the capacity of interpreting of different kinds of sources (archaeological, iconographic and literal);
- have the capacity of critical analyzing of different types of construing meaning and sense in relation to the concrete religious locus;
- have the capacity of the comparative approach and typological consideration, focused on the process of mythmaking and ideologization.
Syllabus
  • (0) Introduction to the course. (1) Pre-Israelite Jerusalem. (2) Jerusalem under David and Solomon. (3) Solomon's temple. (4) Jerusalem under Hezekiah and Josiah. (5) The fall of Jerusalem and transformations of Judaism during the exile. (6) The post-exilic renewal of the Jerusalem temple. (7) Seleucid attack against the Jerusalem temple. (8) Herodian reconstruction of the Jerusalem temple. (9) Threat to the Jerusalem temple under Caligula. (10) Jerusalem during the Jewish War. (11) The fall of Jerusalem in apocalypticism and in legends of foundation. (12) Jerusalem in the dynastic ideology of Constantine the Great.
Literature
  • FINKELSTEIN, Israel and Neil Asher SILBERMAN. Objevování Bible : svatá Písma Izraele ve světle moderní archeologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2007, 329 s. ISBN 9788070218693. info
  • Vaughn, Andrew G. – Ann E. Killebrew (eds.). Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. (Society of Biblical Literature, Symposium Series 18), Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2003.
  • LEVINE, Lee I. Jerusalem : portrait of the city in the second Temple period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.). 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002, xviii, 486. ISBN 0827607504. info
  • Day, John (ed.). Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel. London – New York: T & T Clark 2005.
  • SMITH, Jonathan Z. To take place : toward theory in ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, xvii, 183. ISBN 0226763617. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussions, seminar paper.
Assessment methods
Requirements for the colloquium:
(a) active participation in class discussions;
(b) written commentaries in given sources;
(c) seminar paper defenced in a class discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Autumn 2015.
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