B'nai Israel Congregation
of Baltimore
The Center of Jewish
Baltimore
Classes
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Please join us at B'nai Israel Congregation for FREE classes on
Tuesday, Thursdays and the 1st Saturdays of each month.
Open to all Jews and all who are interested.
27 Lloyd Street, Baltimore MD, 21201, 410-732-5454,
Tuesdays: Judaism
from the Inside
Nov. 10, 2009 to May 25, 2010
6:00- 7:25 PM
Codes Inductive introduction
Topics:
1. How Jewish law works
2. How to negotiate a legal text
3. Principles of
Shabbat law
4. Principles of mourning law
5. The
social
anthropology of law
6. The historical Judaism as evidenced by the legal texts
7. Law as code and as map
7:30- 9:15 PM
Semester I Joshua Semester II Judges
1. First lesson, the challenge of
James Kugel
2. How does the bible read
3. Teasing literature from history and history from Literature
4. The religious ideas of ancient Israel and the religion called "Torah"
5. How do we parse the Biblical text?
6. The student will be trained in the literary method of parsing the
Masoretic text.
Thursday Judaism in the context of History
Nov. 12, 2009 - May 27, 2010
6:00 - 7:25
Ancient Near
East and the development of culture
Themes and topics:
1. Sumer
2. Akkad
3. Babylon
4, Ugarit
5.
Israel
6.
Egypt
7. Greece
Concerns and ideas:
1. How to study history
2. the history of the west begins in the east
3. how unique is Israel
7:30-9:15
The
Gospel according to the Jews
Semester I Acts
1.
Raymond Brown, criticism and believiers
2. Acts as a continuiation of Luke
3. reconstructing the biases of Acts
4 Jewish and Greek Christianity
5. Literary analysis for historical decoding
6. How much Judaism is found in Acts
Semester II Paul's letters
1. Introduction to Paul
2. What did Paul really write
3. Galatians and the law
4. Romans: a church not founded by Paul
5. Is there a spirit of the law
6. Paul: an assessment
7. Religious dialogue Is it possible?
1st Saturday nights @ B'nai Israel Congregation
Nov. 7, Dec. 5, 2009, February 6, 2010, March 13, 2010
Coffee, Cake and Conversation - Biblical Women ( free)
( Men also welcome )
Havdallah, then light refreshments and conversation
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