Program
Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, History, International Relations, Judaic Studies, Languages, Political Science, Religion, and Theology

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Modern Arabic (Elementary and Intermediate)
Yiddish I and II
Modern Hebrew (all levels)
Aramaic
Ugaritic
Akkadian

Courses
Anthropology

Power and Society in the Middle East
The Nomadic Alternative

Archaeology
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Archaeology of Mesopotamia
Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
Anatolian Archaeology
Studies in Archaeology of the Near and Middle East
Seminar: Archaeology of Mesopotamia

Economics
The Economy of the Middle East
Health Economics in Less-Developed Countries

History
Introduction to the Middle East
History of Northern Africa
History of Modern Iran 1900-present
Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East
Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East
Islamic History
Iraq

International Relations
Political Geography of the Middle East
History of Modern Iran 1900-present
Seminar: The United States in the Middle East
Seminar: Persian Gulf/Arabian Peninsula
Seminar: The Islamic Factor in the Modern Middle East
Seminar: Major Themes in the Middle East Peace Process
Muslim Republics in Central Asia and Caucasia
Political Economy of Oil

Islamic Studies
Islam
the Mystical Dimensions of Islam: Sufism
Religious Meaning of Islamic Poetry
The Quran
Directed Study in Islamic Studies
Islam in the Modern Age
Islam and the West
Medieval Islamic Philosophy
Islamic Law
Aspects of Islamic Culture
Islam in Global Perspective
Muhammad and the Quran

Judaic Studies
The Bible
Religions of the World
Judaism
The Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
Introduction to the Genres of Rabbinic Literature
European Jewry: Beginnings to the Early Modern Period
Book of Job and the Problem of Evil
Classic Jewish Thought
The Holocaust
Themes in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Zionism and the State of Israel
Directed Study: Judaism
Modern Jewish Thought
History of Judaism
The History, Sociology, and Religion of American Jewry
The Wisdom Tradition in Ancient Israel
Jewish Apocryphal Literature
The Biblical World
History in Jewish Thought: Shapes, Uses, Meanings
Maimonides
Midrash Genesis Rabbah
Sociology of Evil
Jewish Mysticism
Literature of Memory I, II, III
Responses to Jewish Persecution
Literature of Memory V: Franz Kafka’s Exile and Memory-Reflections in Moral and Social Philosophy
Jews and Judaica
Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses Through the Ages

Languages
Elementary Modern Arabic
Second-year Modern Arabic
Introduction to Yiddish Language and Culture I, II
Yiddish Literature
First-Semester Hebrew
Accelerated First-Semester Hebrew
Second-Semester Hebrew
Accelerated Second-Semester Hebrew
Third-Semester Hebrew
Fourth Semester Hebrew
Modern Hebrew Literature
Agnon to Oz: In Search of Modernity
The Culture and Civilization of Modern Israel
Advanced Oral Expression
Fifth Semester Hebrew
Sixth Semester Hebrew
The History and Structure of Hebrew
The Literature of Zionism and Pioneering
Directed Study
Holocaust Literature and Film

Political Science
Politics and Society in North Africa and the Middle East

School of Theology
Life and Thought of Post-Exilic Israel
Biblical Aramaic
Aramaic Texts
Ugaritic Language and Literature
Akkadian I, II

Faculty
Kathryn Bard (Archaeology)
Thomas J. Barfield (Anthropology)
Katheryn P. Darr (School of Theology)
Randall P. Ellis (Economics)
Irene L. Gendzier (Political Science)
Shala Haeri (Anthropology)
Hillel Levine (Religion - Judaic)
Charles T. Lindholm (Anthropology)
Herbert W. Mason (History, Religion - Islamic)
Farhang Mehr (International Relations)
Augustus R. Norton (International Relations)
Simon B. Parker (School of Theology)
James D. Purvis (Religion - Judaic)
Merlin Swartz (Religion - Islamic)
Benno Weiser Varon (Religion - Judaic)
Elie Wiesel (Religion - Judaic)
Paul Zimansky (Archaeology)