Aims

By the end of the seminar, the student should be capable of understanding and appreciating the ins and outs of the difficult relations between Judaism and Christianity from the origins until today. Students should be able to grasp the constants and recent evolutions in perspectives for inter-religious dialogue.

Main themes

Partant de la problématique du judaïsme, le séminaire se construira autour d'une ou de plusieurs thématiques. Sans s'attarder aux similitudes superficilles ou ponctuelles, on s'attachera à dégager, de part et d'autre, des structures profondes, des ressorts essentiels, afin de les comparer et d'analyser ce que le judaïsme et le christianisme peuvent représenter l'un pour l'autre. On tiendra compte de l'évolution des relations judéo-chrétiennes et de la réflexion chrétienne sur le peuple juif et le judaïsme, en particulier depuis Vatican II.
Le séminaire pourra comprendre des temps d'enseignement magistral, des exposés d'étudiants et des travaux en commun (analyses de textes et de documents audio-visuels, recherches bibliographiques, etc).

Content and teaching methods

The first sessions, lectures, announce the object and method. The subjects proposed to participants touch on various historical moments (origins, patristics, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, national, Conciliar and pontifical ecclesiastical documents) and themes (messianism). For each subject, a starter bibliography is provided. At the end of the exposés, the other students are invited to react in terms of their own areas of competence. The instructor points out elements of comparison which might have escaped notice.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite: an initial introduction to Judaism
Evaluation is based on active participation in the seminar (a text written with this participation in mind) and on communication on documents (commented interpretation).

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