COURSE UNIT TITLE

: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SECTS: SEPARATION PROCESSES, SIMILARITIES, DIFFERENCES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6233 JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SECTS: SEPARATION PROCESSES, SIMILARITIES, DIFFERENCES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKKI ŞAH YASDIMAN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To provide students to understand the origin, development process, basic belief and practices of Today's Jewish Sects. And also to provide students to understand the differences among the Jewish Sects at present.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students shall learn how originated Today's Jewish Sects.
2   Students shall learn the historical process of Today's Jewish Sects.
3   Students shall learn basic docrtines of Orthodox Jusaism.
4   Students shall learn basic docrtines of Concervative Jusaism.
5   Students shall learn basic docrtines of Liberal Jusaism.
6   Students shall learn how originated Today's Jewish Sects.
7   Students shall learn the historical process of Today's Jewish Sects.
8   Students shall learn basic docrtines of Orthodox Jusaism.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: The aims and sources of the lecture
2 The main divisions in the history of Jusaism
3 The emergence of the Jewish sect
4 Samiris
5 Early Jewish sects
6 Medieval Jewish sects
7 Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews
8 Midterm Exam
9 Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
10 The basic beliefs of Orthodox Judaism
11 The main practices of Orthodox Judaism
12 Conservative Judaism
13 Liberal/Reformist Judaism
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Sacha Stern, Ed., Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History, Brill, Leiden, 2008.
2) Reuben Kaufman, Great Sects and Schisms in Judaism, J. David, 1967.
3) Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice, Routledge, 2004
4) Lawrence Fine & Ivan G. Marcus, Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern Period, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.
5) James Alan Montgemery, The Samaritans: The Earliest Jewish Sect, The J.C. Winston Co., 1907.
6) Alexei Sivertsev, Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism, Brill, 2005.
7) Eli W. Schlossberg, The World of Orthodox Judaism, Rowman & Littlefield Pub., Oxford, 2004.
8) Jeffrey S. Gurock, Orthodox Jews in America, Indiana Univ. Press, Indianapolis, 2009.
9) Reuven P. Bulka, Dimensions of Orthodox Judaism, Ktav Publishing House, 1983.
10) Neil Gillman, Conservative Judaism: The New Century, Behrman House, USA, 1993.
11) Robert Gordis, Understanding Conservative Judaism, Rabbinical Assembly, 1978.
12) Eugene B. Borowitz, Liberal Judaism, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1984.
13) John D. Rayner, Liberal Judaism: An Introduction, Liberal Jewish Synagogue, 1968.
David Sorkin, Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, Peter Halban, London, 1996.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Brain Storming , Testing, Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hammet.arslan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Reading 10 2 20
Web Search and Library Research 4 2 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 176

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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