Course Syllabus

Amy Erickson, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the MTS Program

“By gaining greater knowledge of how others think, we can become less certain of the knowledge we think we have, which is always the first step to greater understanding.” --Julian Baggini

 

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Course Description and Objectives

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Books

Jon D. Levenson, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Elaine Pagels, Why Religion? A Personal Story. New York: HarperLuxe, 2018

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