This website captures the in-class content (PowerPoint Slides and lecture audio) from my Winter 2020 Northwestern Course “Introduction to Judaism.” The course was not originally designed for online distribution, but I thought it may be of interest during this corona-virus quarantine moment. All feedback is welcome.

Barry

 

Class Topic	PowerPoint Slides	Lecture Audio
Judaism and Jewishness: An Introduction	Class 1 PowerPoint	Class 1 Audio
The Hebrew Bible: What is Tanakh?	Class 2 PowerPoint	Class 2 Audio
Torah: Law as Religion	Class 3 PowerPoint	Class 3 Audio
Nevi’im: Prophecy and History	Class 4 PowerPoint	Class 4 Audio
Ketuvim: Exile and Return	Class 5 PowerPoint	Class 5 Audio
Judaism and The Hellenistic World	Class 6 PowerPoint	Class 6 Audio
Sects and Destruction (the sequel)	Class 7 PowerPoint	Class 7 Audio
Rabbinic Reinvention of Judaism	Class 8 PowerPoint	Class 8 Audio
Palestine and Babylonia	Class 9 PowerPoint	Class 9 Audio
Rhythms of Daily Life and the Lifecycle	Class 10 PowerPoint	Class 10 Audio
The Islamic Conquest and Post-Rabbinic Judaism	Class 11 PowerPoint	Class 11 Audio
The Golden Age of Spain and Hebrew Poetry	Class 12 PowerPoint	Class 12 Video
Maimonides and Jewish Philosophy	Class 13 PowerPoint	Class 13 Audio
Anti-Semitism	Class 14 PowerPoint	Class 14 Audio
Settling Ashkenaz, Adjusting to Christianity	Class 15 PowerPoint	Class 15 Audio
Kabbalah and the Return of Pagan Polytheism	Class 16 Powerpoint	Class 16 Audio
Iberian Judaism and Waiting for the Messiah (but not too long) in the Ottoman Empire	Class 17 PowerPoint	Class 17 Audio
Hasidim/Misnagdim (Eastern Europe)	Class 18 PowerPoint	Class 18 Audio
Rights and Ideas: Enlightenment and the Jewish Question (Western Europe)	Class 19 PowerPoint	Class 19 Audio
Reform Judaism and Denominationalism	Class 20 PowerPoint	Class 20 Audio
The Holocaust	Class 21 PowerPoint	Class 21 Audio
Israel	Class 22 PowerPoint	Class 22 Audio
Judaism in America	Class 23 PowerPoint	Class 23 Audio