Few technological innovations have more profoundly shaped the course of human civilization than the invention of writing. This course explores…
This interdisciplinary course explores various, often conflicting ways of conceiving and shaping reality in the ancient world – religious, scientific,…
This seminar will examine how historians have reconstructed the life, teachings and death of the historical Jesus. We will look…
This course explores the messianic idea in America as well as the messianic movements that have been active in the…
The course is taught by a macehualli and a native speaker of Spanish and seeks to explore the various Indigenous…
Jewish life and civilization in Spain have been compared to a drama in which moments of cultural flourishing are mixed…
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. The first scrolls…
In 1905 the sociologist Max Weber famously proclaimed that capitalism has a “spirit.” Beyond just determining how we make money…
This seminar examines the cultural construction of animals in Japanese myth, folklore, and religion. We will discuss various kinds of…
Light has figured centrally in human explanations and manipulations of the natural world: from creation narratives, to the Copernican Revolution,…