Welcome to Dr. Robert R. Cargill’s UCLA Spring 2010 ANNEA 10W ‘Jerusalem: The Holy City’ course.
The class meets every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning March 30, 2010 from 12:30-1:50 PM in Haines Hall 118. The course surveys the religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia as symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The class examines the transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence through examination of testimony of artifacts, architecture, and iconography in relation to written word. The course also studies the creation of mythic Jerusalem through event and experience. This course also satisfies UCLA’s Undergraduate Writing II requirement.
The course was created by Dr. William Schniedewind, Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages at UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
You can follow the course on Twitter, Facebook, and you can watch podcasts of Dr. Cargill’s lectures on iTunes U. Registered students may access the course website here.
This blog is provided as a public service to any and all interested in the history of Jerusalem, and will be updated regularly to summarize each class meeting’s lectures. You may post comments on this blog’s postings, but please not that the comments are moderated, and that Dr. Cargill may respond to some comments here in course lectures.
In addition, several students in the class will be blogging the course lectures and their thoughts and reflections about each class meeting’s discussions. A complete list of student blogs will appear on this blog, and will be updated regularly.
Enjoy.
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Is the reading difficult?
of course! but there’s one book that’s actually quite good.
Is there a place online I could find the syllabus? I am not a UCLA student but I am enjoying listening to the course.
dara,
i’ll send you one.
bc
Interesting class. Thanks for making it available on ITunes U!