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| 0680-3236-01 | Lamentation: Poetry, Midrash and the Philosophy of Destructi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course deals with the issues of Lamentation and discuses its appearances in Midrash (The Great Midrash and the Book of Sohar) and in Jewish philosophy. We will also deal with literary and philosophical analogies such as the theory of tragedy and the Trauerspiel.