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JWST 254 - Jewish Ethics


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
New course added 10.25.10.

This course will explore traditional and contemporary Jewish approaches to ethics. Central topics will include questions regarding love and justice, sin and repentance, and the relationship between ethics and law. We will also examine how understandings of Jewish ethics have been shaped by modernity, and we will consider how classical Jewish sources might speak to a range of contemporary moral and political issues.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. Claussen
Consent of the Instructor Required? No
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 254


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