Primary Sources for Paper Assignments

List #1: JUDAISM Section

Biblical Sources:

*Genesis 1:1-2:3 [Course Website]

*Genesis 12 [Course Website]

*Genesis 15 [Course Website]

*Genesis 16-17 [Course Website]

*Genesis 21:1-21 [Course Website]

*Genesis 22:1-19 [Course Website]

*Exodus 12 [Course Website]

*Leviticus 23 [Course Website]

*Exodus 19-20 [Course Website]

*2 Samuel 7 [Course Website]

*Nehemiah 9 [Course Website]

Post-Biblical Sources:

**Jubilees 11-12 [Course Website] – cf. Gen 11:10-12:4

**Jubilees 15 [Course Website] – cf. Gen 17

**Josephus, Antiquities I.7-8 [Course Website] – cf.  Gen 12:1-20

**Josephus, Antiquities I.13 [Course Website] – cf. Gen 22:1-21

Rabbinic and Medieval Sources:

Mishnah - *Pirke Avot 1 [Course Website]

Talmud - *b. Baba Metzia 59a-b [Course Website]

Midrash - **Bereshit Rabbah 1.4 [Course Website]  -- cf. Gen 1:1-2:4; also Prov 8:22

Kabbalah - **Zohar, Section 1, pp. 3b-4a [Course Website] – cf. Gen 1:1-2:4

Modern Sources:

*Heschel, Sabbath, 3-10, 95-101 [Packet]

*Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man, 100-9, 117-23 [Packet]

*Buber, "Judaism and the Jews," 11-21 [Packet]

*Constitution of the Hamburg Temple, The Jew in the Modern World, 161 [Packet]

*Holdheim, “This is our Task,” The Jew in the Modern World, 186-87 [Packet]

*Chorin, “Rationale of Reform,” The Jew in the Modern World, 187-88 [Packet]

*Frankel, “On Changes in Judaism,” The Jew in the Modern World, 194-97 [Packet]

*Hirsh, “Religion Allied to Progress,” The Jew in the Modern World, 197-202 [Packet]

**Plaskow, "Standing Again at Sinai,"  28-33 [Packet] – cf. Ex 19-20

*Plaskow, "Beyond Egalitarianism,"  79-81 [Packet]

*Plaskow, "It is not in Heaven,"  39-40 [Packet]