Untangling Tzelem Elohim (The Image of God)
with Rafael Neis
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When
Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET/12 noon - 1:30 pm PT
April 22 · April 29 · May 6
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Tzelem Elohim - God's image - this ancient idea of the human as created in the likeness of the divine, is a concept that many evoke today as a crucial Jewish value. This mini-course offers ancient Jewish alternatives to the concept as it is commonly understood, questioning its centrality in the past, while also pointing to its limitations and potentials for abuse in the past and present. We will study ancient Jewish sources from the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, and in Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls, in conversation with modern-contemporary sources both on Tzelem Elohim and on radical alternatives that decenter the human.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Rafael Neis
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When
Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET/12 noon - 1:30 pm PT
April 22 · April 29 · May 6
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Tzelem Elohim - God's image - this ancient idea of the human as created in the likeness of the divine, is a concept that many evoke today as a crucial Jewish value. This mini-course offers ancient Jewish alternatives to the concept as it is commonly understood, questioning its centrality in the past, while also pointing to its limitations and potentials for abuse in the past and present. We will study ancient Jewish sources from the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, and in Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls, in conversation with modern-contemporary sources both on Tzelem Elohim and on radical alternatives that decenter the human.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Rafael Neis
—
When
Tuesdays - 3 Weeks
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET/12 noon - 1:30 pm PT
April 22 · April 29 · May 6
—
Tzelem Elohim - God's image - this ancient idea of the human as created in the likeness of the divine, is a concept that many evoke today as a crucial Jewish value. This mini-course offers ancient Jewish alternatives to the concept as it is commonly understood, questioning its centrality in the past, while also pointing to its limitations and potentials for abuse in the past and present. We will study ancient Jewish sources from the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, and in Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls, in conversation with modern-contemporary sources both on Tzelem Elohim and on radical alternatives that decenter the human.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Meet Rafael
Rafael Neis (they/them) is a professor, talmudist, historian, and interdisciplinary artist. They are the author of two books: The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2013) and When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (Berkeley, 2023). Rafe is interested in questions relating to social organization, "law," gender, and classifications of creaturely life. Their art and research investigate past worlds, more-than-human beings, otherwordly ritual, and the senses. Rafe is currently at work on –The Talmud: a Graphic Novel— and is also writing Before Cis: A History of Gender in the Ancient Middle East.
