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Talmud Survey: Kesuvos (TAL213)
Classroom: 78 hours (13 weeks). Distance/Hybrid: Varies.
September 2020 - Present.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to dissect and explain classic Gemara structure, define concepts of Tractate Kesubos, identify the nature of a text, e.g., legal or supra-legal, identify primary and supplemental material through analysis of the Talmudic discussion, find the axiological concepts around which the discussion revolves through analysis of its structure, define and apply the concepts of Talmudic research, decipher Talmudic texts and their cryptic dialog, reconstruct the give-and-take that is the backbone of independent Talmud study. In contradistinction to study-in-depth courses, the focus of the Talmudic survey courses is broad, comprehensive study, which enables Talmudic students to access the concepts necessary to be conversant in a variety of areas of Talmudic discipline.
Major topics taught in this course include: withdrawing from a marriage contract, withdrawing from “fruit”, withdrawing from an inheritance, withdrawing from a partnership, withdrawing from a takanah, withdrawing from part of a kesuba, conditions in financial agreements, inheriting one’s wife’s property, inheriting or selling a burial plot, widows, orphans and creditors, collateral for a deceased man’s debt, a sold kesubah, forcing repayment of a loan, delayed get, delayed purchase, one who widows two women, kesubos benin zichrin, selling a kesuba, dividing the money when there’s not enough to pay all the kesubos, and dividing a business’s money. Topics and sources may vary. The course allows for a cross-section of different kinds of texts, giving the student a broad range of topics to which to apply numerous research techniques. Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion and textual preparations. Prerequisite: Introductory courses in Talmud, fundamental familiarity with the main topics of the tractate.
In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category OR in the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 6 semester hours in Talmud, Judaic Studies, Religious Studies or Theology (3/21).
