Study Abroad Program
THE DUKE IN ISRAEL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2010
May 17 - June 28
The office of Study Abroad and the Program in Jewish Studies together with the Departments of Religion and Asian and Middle East Studies (AMES) will offer an exciting six-week academic program of study in Jerusalem with study tours to the main historic sites in Israel and Jordan. Co-directed by Eric and Carol Meyers of the Religion Department, the program will offer two courses:
Art and Archeology of the Biblical World (RELIGION 175). co-taught by Eric and Carol Meyers. This course will focus on the material remains of important biblical sites, how they figure in the Bible's account of the past, and how their meaning is constructed by people in the modern world. The course will pay special attention to the city of Jerusalem, which will also be the subject of the second course.
Jerusalem Past and Present (AMES 174), taught by Shai Ginsberg, Assistant Professor in AMES. He will be assisted by Doron Wilfand, PhD candidate in Religion and registered tour guide in Israel. This course will examine the confused relations between the physical spaces of Jerusalem and the public accounts that they inform; it will consider how the materiality of Jerusalem has been shaped by the legal, literary, and religious discourse about it. Graduate credit is also available.
More information about this program will be announced as it becomes available.