response paper

Three response paper 1.5 page each. 4 pages in total

Response paper1: Reading from Levy-Rubin and Rubin ATTACHED

Response paper 2: Reading from Flood

Response paper3: Reading from Nassar Biblification in the Service of Colonialism

Instruction:

It should be about one half of a page in length, single-spaced. They will be graded based on two components: care taken with writing (including such things as correct grammar and spelling) and content (the extent to which the questions posed have been correctly answered).

Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

This class looks at 3000 years of life in the city of Jerusalem. In particular, it looks at major historical moments that occasioned surprising creations in this place. We will begin with great biblical kings, and the city they founded and fortified, moving through the magnificent building campaigns of Roman, Christian, and Islamic rule, and end with the modern religious and political conditions that led to the divided city Jerusalem is today, and the way those conditions map onto this space and motivate artistic output. There are few cities in the world like this one, defined by continuous habitation from the earliest moments of human settlement and by literary and material culture of unsurpassed variety and force. We will understand it as such through a revealing combination of primary and secondary materials belonging to the disciplines of archaeology, history, art history, and literature.