• Attendance is required. More than two unexcused absences will drop your grade, as will habitual tardiness. If you must miss class, contact Prof. Langer no later than that morning. Illness and BC pre-authorized sports travel will be excused.
• Students are expected to prepare for class and to bring to class the relevant texts.
• 20% of grade: quiz grades (curved) plus class participation, listserv participation, and extra credit opportunities. There will be regular announced 5-minute open book quizzes based on the study questions at the beginning of class. There will be no make-ups for these quizzes. Study questions are on the web, linked to the syllabus.
• 45% of grade: three 1000-word essays, on Genesis, Goldberg, and liturgy.
• 35% of grade: scheduled final exam, 9AM Tuesday December 19, Campion 300.

If you have a disability that requires special arrangements, you must inform Prof. Langer and provide documentation during the first two weeks of class.

This is a two semester course. To receive core credit, you must take both semesters in sequence.

Textbooks: Available in the bookstore and on reserve:

• Anthology
• Bible: Required: Catholic Study Bible (or another Christian Bible)
• Bible: Recommended: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Bible)
• Michael Goldberg, Jews and Christians: Getting Our Stories Straight, the Exodus and the Passion - Resurrection (Trinity Press International, 1991) ISBN 1563380048
• Passover Haggadah
• Mark Searle, Liturgy Made Simple (Liturgical Press, 1981) ISBN 0814612210

Link to Tentative Calendar for Semester

I. Master Stories: Founding the Religious Communities

A. Torah

• Goldberg: Introduction and chapters on Exodus
• Bible: familiarize yourself with the characters and narrative of Genesis; Joshua 1-5; II Samuel 6-7; II Chronicles 34-36

B. Gospel

• Goldberg: Chapters on Matthew and concluding discussions
• Bible: familiarize yourself with the characters, narratives, and ideas of Acts and Romans

C. Dialogue Point: Messiah

Robert Anderson, "Responses to Jesus: The Jewish “no” and the Christian “yes”", (http://www.jcrelations.com/articl1/anderson.htm)

II. Celebrating the Master Stories

A. Passover

• Anthology: Mishnah Pesahim Ch. 10.
• Passover Haggadah

B. The Eucharist

Mark Searle, Liturgy Made Simple (Liturgical Press, 1981)

REQUIRED VISIT TO A CATHOLIC MASS -- ON YOUR OWN

C. Synagogue Liturgy

Anthology: Abraham Millgram, Jewish Worship (Jewish Publication Society, 1971), pp. 79-120

REQUIRED VISIT TO A SYNAGOGUE SERVICE -- DECEMBER 1, 6:30 PM

D. Dialogue Point

Anthology: Frank C. Senn, "Should Christians Celebrate the Passover?" in Bradshaw and Hoffman, Passover and Easter: The Symbolic Structuring of Sacred Seasons (Notre Dame, 1999), 183-205.

III. The Holy Land

• Handout: R.J.Zwi Werblowsky, "The Meaning of Jerusalem to Jews, Christians, and Muslims."
• Holy Land Pilgrimage Guidelines for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, (http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/archives/99-070a.htm)
• Virtual Jerusalem Tour, (http://www.md.huji.ac.il/vjt/)
• Visit (Virtually) the Western Wall (Kotel), (http:md.huji.ac.il/vjt/">Virtual Jerusalem Tour, (http://www.md.huji.ac.il/vjt/)
• Visit (Virtually) the Western Wall (Kotel), (http://www.kotelkam.com/home.htm)

I have just posted two relevant pieces that I have written recently. They are not required, but I draw them to your attention: "Jerusalem: The Heart of the Jewish World" and "Peace in Israel"