- Docente: Mauro Perani
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-OR/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Archaeological Heritage (cod. 0546)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to give to the students an exhaustive knowledge of Judaism and its history.
Course contents
The Judaism of Biblical period: the pre-exilic period and the Judaism of the Second Temple. The crisis of 70 C.E. The raising of the Rabbinic Judaism. Ancient and medieval Judaism. Modern Jewish history. Contemporary Judaism and the foundation of the State of Israel.
Readings/Bibliography
The student have to choose with the teacher some texts among the following volumes: G. Boccaccini, Il medio giudaismo. Per una storia del pensiero giudaico tra il terzo secolo a.e.v. e il secondo e.v., Marietti, Genova 1993; P. Sacchi, Storia del Secondo Tempio. Israele tra IV secolo a.C. e I d.C., SEI, Società Editrice Internazionale, Torino 1994; G. Stemberger, Il giudaismo classico. Cultura e storia del tempo rabbinico (dal 70 al 1040), Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 1991; P. Reinach Sabbadini (cur.), La cultura ebraica, Einaudi, Gli struzzi 516, Torino 2000; G. Filoramo (cur.), Ebraismo, Editori Laterza, Biblioteca Universale Laterza [n. 515], Bari 2004; D. Cohn-Sherbok, Ebraismo, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 2000; D. e L. Cohn-Sherbok, Breve storia dell'ebraismo, Il Mulino, Universale Paperbacks n. 395, Bologna 2001; P. Stefani, Introduzione all'ebraismo, Queriniana, Brescia 1995.
Teaching methods
Historical presentation. Reading of text and documents.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
Visiting some important European Jewish Museums. Meeting with some representative of Jewish world.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Mauro Perani