DSBcB33 History of the Jewish People in Antiquity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tereza Kvasničková (lecturer)
Bc. Eliška Gruberová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tereza Kvasničková
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 B2.41
Prerequisites
! DSBcB033 Jews in Antiquity
General knowledge of the Bible. The lecture is designed as a basic course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will be thoroughly introduced into political and social history of the Jewish nation. The religion called judaism is connected to the Jewish nation, that is why this religion will be taken into account, too, in order that some political and social phenomena can be understood properly.
Basic lectures will be followed by the work with written sources.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to elucidate the development processes and stages of Jewish history from the beginnnings until the end of Antiquity, they will learn to work with a religious text and use it as a source for the study of history and confront it with other sources, they will be able to explain properly a number of terms that have become a part of a broader cultural heritage.
Syllabus
  • 1. The origins of Jews, written and archaeological sources - Palestine before Israel, the ethnogenesis of the Jewish nation, the rise of Judaism (about 1200 BC-10th c. BC)
  • 2. The Law and Rituals, the Society of Old Israel - the Hebrew Bible, the differences between the Christian and the Jewish versions, the analysis of Torah's basic themes, the calendar and the associated holidays
  • 3. Royal Age I: Israel and Judea - David, Solomon, Biblical Archeology, Northern Israel, Dynasty of the Omrians, Prophets (after 722 BC - Assassins' Inquisition)
  • 4. Royal Age II: Kingdom of Judea after 586 BC - Hezekiah, Josiah, religious reform of Judaism, conflicts with Egypt and Babylonia, the birth of Messianism
  • 5. Under the domination of Babylonia and Persia - from Nebukadnesar II. through the Great Cyrus to the construction of the second temple, Daniel's prophecy, Ester, Ezekiel (587 BC - 323 BC)
  • 6. Jews and Hellenism I: from Alexander the Great to the the Maccabees (323 BC - 161 BC) - the War of the Diadochs, Alexandria, the Hellenization of Jewish Society and the Resistance against it
  • 7. Jews and Hellenism II: The Hasmoneans after 63 BC, including the differentiation of Judaism in Hellenistic times (the rise of Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes)
  • 8. The Jews and the Roman Empire I: The Herods - After the First Jewish War
  • 9. The Jews and the Roman Empire II: The Jewish Wars, Flavius ​​Josephus, The Uprising of Bar Kokhba (66 AD - 135 AD)
  • 10. Jews and the Roman Empire III: Diaspora, rabbinical reform of Judaism
  • 11. Jews and Christians I: Judeo-Christians and Paul of Tarsus
  • 12. Jews and Christians II: Jews after 313 AD
Literature
    required literature
  • SCHÄFER, Peter. Dějiny Židů v antice : od Alexandra Velikého po arabskou nadvládu. Translated by Štěpán Zbytovský. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003, 263 s. ISBN 8070216336. info
  • RENDTORFF, Rolf. Hebrejská bible a dějiny : úvod do starozákonní literatury. Edited by Jiří Hoblík. Vyd. 3. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003, 373 s. ISBN 8070216344. info
  • SEGERT, Stanislav. Starověké dějiny Židů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1995, 310 s. ISBN 8020503048. info
    recommended literature
  • FINKELSTEIN, Israel and Neil Asher SILBERMAN. Objevování Bible : svatá Písma Izraele ve světle moderní archeologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2007, 329 s. ISBN 9788070218693. info
  • PAVLINCOVÁ, Helena. Judaismus, křesťanství, islám. Vyd. 2. přeprac. a rozš.,. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2003, 661 s. ISBN 80-7182-165-9. info
  • GRANT, Michael. Židé v římském světě. Translated by Gerik Císař. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha: Jiří Buchal - BB art, 2003, 327 s. ISBN 8072579533. info
  • STERN, Marc. Svátky v životě Židů : vzpomínání, slavení, vyprávění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2002, 247 s. ISBN 8070215518. info
  • SCHUBERT, Kurt. Židovské náboženství v proměnách věků : zdroje, teologie, filosofie, mystika. Vyd. 2. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1999, 285 s. ISBN 8070213035. info
  • DOLEŽELOVÁ, Jana, Alexandr PUTÍK and Jiřina ŠEDINOVÁ. Židovské tradice a zvyky. Photo by Dana Cabanová. V Praze: Státní židovské muzeum, 1992, 84 s. ISBN 80-900750-9-6. info
  • BIČ, Miloš. Stopami dávných věků : mezi Nilem a Tigridem. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1979, 274 s. URL info
Teaching methods
lecture, reading and analysis of Biblical and other historical sources
Assessment methods
a test of biblical and historical knowledge
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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