Rabbinical School Courses Spring 2019 Course Number Course Name Instructor BIB 601 Prophets Kristine Garroway Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Brettler and Berlin, The Jewish Study Bible (any edition) BIB 626 Qur anic Narrative Reuven Firestone The only required book is a Qur'an. Two editions are acceptable, and students should see which they would prefer (both can be ordered online): J. Droge, The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation (Sheffield: Equinox, 2013) or Seyyed Hossein Nasr (ed.), The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (New York: HarperCollins, 2015). BIB 630 Books of Samuel Kristine Garroway Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Brettler and Berlin, The Jewish Study Bible (any edition) EDU 630A Curriculum Content Adam Allenberg No books required
HEB 603A Hebrew Language Lisa Ansell Brandeis Modern Hebrew, Intermediate to Advance: Pilot edition ISBN-13: 978-1611684476, ISBN-10: 1611684471 HEB 603B Hebrew Language Deborah Steinhart A course packet will be distributed after the first day of class. HEB 626 Rendering Amichai and the Tanakh Bill Cutter (In Hebrew) Yehuda Amichai, PATUACH SAGUR PATUACH, Schocken Press. ***YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUY THIS BOOK FROM DR. CUTTER. DO NOT PURCHASE BEFORE CLASSES BEGIN*** The English translation of the above: OPEN CLOSED OPEN, Harcourt, Incl, 2000 ISBN 0-15-100378-5. Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. HIS 501 Reform Judaism Gary Zola (taught cross-campus) Meyer, Michael A. and W. Gunther Plaut. The Reform Judaism Reader: North American Documents. New York: UAHC Press, 2000. R ISBN-13: 978-0807407325 ISBN-10: 0807407321 Meyer, Michael A. Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. R ISBN-13: 978-0195063424 ISBN-10: 0195063422 Plaut, W. Gunther. The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of Its European Origins. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. R ASIN: B01E9QVB6M Plaut, W. Gunther. The Growth of Reform Judaism: American and European Sources. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. R ASIN: B01A9QIE02
HIS 601 Medieval Jewish History Jacob Cunningham Mark Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages. Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book. Jacob Rader Marcus, ed., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791 (Revised Edition) Other readings will be posted on SAKAI. HIS 603 American Jewish History Bruce Phillips Jonathan Sarna, ed., The American Jewish Experience (2nd ed., 1997) Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History (2004) Samuel Heilman, Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century (1995) PDE 603 Speech Jonathan Aaron No books required PDE 609 Worship Joel Simonds No books required PDE 612 Rabbinic Practicum B Karen Fox Ashlog and Sands, Pastoral Counseling and Care (Psychosocial Press, 2000) Bowenian Family Therapy, Winek, J. Systemic Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice, (Sage Publications, 2008), pp. 81-105 (On Sakai)
**Friedman, E., Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, (The Guilford Press, 2011 Paperback, 2011) (especially Chapters 1,2,3,7) Friedman, M. and Yehuda, R., The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling (Routledge, NY, 2017) (new!) Goor, D. Editor, L chol Zman V Et: For Sacred Moments: The CCAR Lifecycle Guide (CCAR Press, 2015) Mc Goldrick, Carter and Garcia Preto, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, (Pearson Education, Inc of Allyn and Bacon, 2011) Recommended: Rabbis Manuals, especially Goldin, H., HaMadrich (1939) CCAR Ethics Code Bloom, J. Jewish Relational Care (Haworth Press, 2006) (See Sakai for articles) Frankel, V., Man s Search for Meaning (Beacon Press, 2000) Friedman, D., Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources (Jewish Lights, 2001) Galindo, E. Boomer, D. Reagan A Family Genogram Workbook (Educational Consultants, 2006) Hoffman and Bradshaw, The Jewish Wedding Ceremony, Two Lifecycle Traditions, Volume 4, (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Levin and Prince, Editors, Judaism and Health: A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources (Jewish Lights, 2013) (see especially pp. 157-248 and 239-281) Levitz, Y., Phd. & Twerski, A. MD, The Practical Guide to Rabbinic Counseling (Jewish Lights, 2012) Netter, P., Divorce is a Mitzvah, (Jewish Lights, 2005) Orenstein, D. Lifecycles: Jewish Women in Life Passages and Personal Milestones (Jewish Lights, 1994) Schacter-Shlomi, Z. The Geologist of the Soul (Albion-Andalus Books, 2012) Strassfeld, M., A Book of Life (Jewish Lights, 2006) PDE 614 Rabbinic Practicum D Ed Harris Friedman, Dayle, Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook Second Edition (it s important to get the Second Edition) Jewish Lights Publishing
Levitz and Twerski, A Practical Guide to Rabbinic Counseling, Jewish Lights Publishing PDE 621 Ordination Seminar B Dvora Weisberg/Ken Chasen There are no required materials for this course. PHI 602 Modern/Contemporary Jewish Thought Rachel Adler All these are available in paperback and used. You really ought to own them. Eugene Borowitz Choices in Modern Jewish Thought ISBN 0-87441-581-0 Martin Buber I and Thou ISBN 0684717255 Abraham Joshua Heschel Man is Not Alone Mordecai Kaplan Dynamic Judaism ISBN 0823213102 Franz Rosenzweig On Jewish Learning ISBN 08052008437 J.B. Soloveitchik The Lonely Man of Faith ISBN 0385514085 Optional: God in Search of Man PHI 592 Rationalism and Qabbalah Tamar Marvin Three Jewish Philosophers. Lewy, Hans, Isaak Heinemann, and Alexander Altmann, eds. New Milford, Conn.: The Toby Press, 2006. Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader. New York: Behrman House, 1972. Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation, In Theory and Practice. Revised ed. Kaplan, Aryeh, ed. San Francisco: Weiser Books, 1997. (Includes Hebrew text)
RAB 601 Midrash Joshua Garroway No required materials RAB 606 Talmud B Dvora Weisberg Students should purchase an edition of Tractate Megillah that follows the layout of the Vilna edition; the Koren edition is acceptable, as is an unvocalized edition. RAB 607 Codes Candice Levy A course packet will be distributed. RAB 626 Perkei Avot Candice Levy Students should purchase the Koren Pirkei Avot ISBN 9653017500. This is the Hebrew English edition. THE 625 Approaches to Pain, Suffering, and Loss Rachel Adler Find a used copy. Harold Kushner When Bad Things Happen to Good People Viktor Frankl Man s Search for Meaning Optional: Pauline Boss Ambiguous Loss The course will consist mainly of readings on Sakai.