COURSE SYLLABUS

HISTORY OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS

1	Course Title:	HISTORY OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS
2	Course Code:	FDB6151
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Third Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç.Dr. BÜLENT ŞENAY
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç.Dr. Bülent ŞENAY U.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü bshanay@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To examine the history and theology of Jewish/Christian relations, with a focus on the depiction of Jews and Judaism in Christian theology, and the depiction of Christians and Christianity within Jewish theological reflection. Central to the course is the reading and study of primary sources throughout Jewish and Christian tradition that illustrates the long and often difficult history of the relationships between Jews and Christians. The course will study Jewish/Christian relations from the first through the twenty-first centuries, looking at also Evangelical Christian approach to Israel, Christian Zionism, and End Times.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Students will become acquainted with various aspects of the history of Jewish-Christian relations.;
2	Students will learn fundamental theological doctrines and concepts of Judaism and Christianity about each other.;
3	Students will learn to explore the first and second sources of the Jewish – Christian relations.;
4	Students will develop critical understanding of contemporary relations between Judaism and Christianity.;
5	Students will be able to develop skills in reading and thinking critically, working with a variety of primary and secondary materials, writing with clarity and purpose, and discussing and debating in a respectful and rigorous manner.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The Emergence of Christianity and Jews in Roman Palestine
2	Transformation of Jewish `Logos` to Christian `Crucifixion`
3	‘Birkat ha-Minim’, ‘Meshummadim’ and `ha-Notzerim’
4	Jesus and Christianity in Rabbinical Writings
5	From Jewish Christianity to Gentile Christianity
6	“Contra Ioudaios” in Patristic Literature
7	Jews in the writings of Justin Martyr, Origen and John Chrysostom
8	Jews in the Early Christian Council Texts
9	Jewish Ghettoes and Expulsion in Medieval Christian Europe
10	Jews under Cross and Crescent
11	Antisemitism, Shoah and Holocaoust in Christian Perception
12	Christian Zionism, Evangelism, Jerusalem and Israel
13	Contemporary Literature on Jewish-Christian Relations
14	Essay Evaluations

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	• Helen Fry, Christian-Jewish Dialogue; a Reader, Exeter: University of Exeter, 1996. • Boyarin, Daniel, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997. • Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, Penn, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. • Charlesworth, James H. (ed.), Jesus’ Jewishness: Exploring the Place of Jesus in Early Judaism, Philadelphia: American Interfaith Institute and New York: Crossroad, 1991. • Davies, W. D., Paul and Rabbinic Judaism, London: SPCK, 1948. • Michael Hilton, The Christian Effect on Jewish Life, London: SCM Press, 1994. • Fritz A Rothschild, ed, Jewish Perspectives on Christianity, New York: Crossroad, 1990. • Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, Princeton, 1994. • Marc Saperstein, Moments of Crisis in Jewish-Christian Relations, London: SCM Press, 1989. • F.J.E. Boddens Hosang, Establishing Boundaries: Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Council Texts and the Writings of Church Fathers, Leiden: Brıll, 2010. • E. Kessler, An Introduction to Jewish/Christian Relations, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. • Aitken,J.K.and Kessler,E.(eds.),Challenges in Jewish–Christian Relations, New York: Paulist Press, 2006. • Elisheva Carlebach, Jacob J. Schacter, New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations In Honor of David Berger, Leiden: Brill, 2011. • Banki, Judith H. and Pawlikowski, John T. (eds.), Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Christian and Jewish Perspective, Franklin, WI and Chicago: Sheed&Ward, 2002. • Hans Joachim Schoeps, The Jewish-Christian Argument: a History of Theologies in Conflict, translated by David E Green, London: Faber and Faber, 1963. • Katz, J., Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish–Gentile Relations in Medieval and Modern Times, London: Oxford University Press, 1961. • Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, NY: Random House, 2013. • Bülent Şenay, The Making of Jewish Christianity, unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Britain, 1999. • Bülent Şenay, “Yahudi-Hıristiyan İlişkileri Tarihi ve Anti-Semitizm-Oryantalizm İlişkisi”, U.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 11, Sayı:2, 2002, ss. 117-146. • Bülent Şenay, Markûnilik: İlk Rafızi Hıristiyan Kilisesi, Verka yayınları, Bursa, 2003. • Myers, David N., Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History, New York, 1995. • David B. Burrell, Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology Challenges in Contemporary Theology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		60
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		40
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	10	14	140
Homeworks, Performances	1	10	20
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	6	6
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	6	6
Total WorkLoad			214
Total workload/ 30 hr			7,13
ECTS Credit of the Course			7

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ8	PQ9	PQ10	PQ11	PQ12
LO1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High