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Every Picture Tells a Story: Beginning Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Jehon Grist
Sun., June 17-July 29
Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley
Ancient Egyptian was one of the first ‘picture languages,’ employing beautiful images to express consonants, syllables and whole words. When Biblical Hebrew was born, Egyptian writing was already 2000 years old, a language rich in religious and secular literature.
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Bay Area Community Talmud Circle
(Aranoff, Derby, Richman, Wolf-Prusan)
Talmud Circle Packet Materials
Talmud Circle Guide
Evolution of Halacha Chart
Amoraim
Berhakhot 7a
Sabbath 127a
Sanhedrin 7a
Taanaim
Talmudic Centers
TC Unit 1
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Rabbi Ruth Adar
Introduction to the Jewish Experience
Required: Living Judaism by Wayne Dosick
Other recommendations: http://jewishexperienceonline.com/book-list/
Jehon Grist
Beginning and Intermediate Prayerbook Hebrew
Required: Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way
Deborah Syllabus
Hess, The Name Game, Ju 4 5
Judges 4 5 BHS
Judges 4
Judges 5
Pharaoh’s Land: History and Culture of Ancient Egypt
Recommended text: Ian Shaw (ed)., The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Every Picture Tells a Story: Beginning Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Mark Collier and Bill Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs Rev. ed. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their World
Recommended texts: (all paperback)
VanderKam, J. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. 2d. ed. Eerdmans Publishing, 2010.
Abegg, M., Flint, P, et al. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible. Harper San Francisco, 2002.
Vermes, G. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. Penguin Classics, 2004.
Jon Levitow
Introductory Yiddish
Required: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature, and Culture Vol. II by Sheva Zucker
Recommended: Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary by Uriel Weinreich
Orna Morad
Modern Hebrew
Required: Hebrew from Scratch part one
Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser
Building Blocks of Judaism Syllabus
Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Rabbi Wayne Dosick
A Short History of the Jewish People by Raymond Scheindlin
Rachel Valfer
Required: Hebrew from Scratch part one
BOOKS WRITTEN BY OUR FACULTY
Estelle Frankel
Kabbalah and the Practice of ‘Sacred Therapy‘
Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness
Fred Rosenbaum
Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
Out on a Ledge (with Eva Libitzky)
Here, There are no Sarahs (with Sonia Orbuch)
Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California (with Joe Pell)
Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1990