LS 751 - Holy Land: Freedom and Truth in a Violent World

(3.00 cr.)

Jews, Christians, and Muslims have long debated and fought among themselves and between each other over "the holy land." Why? This question is pursued by reading, talking, and writing about traditional Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures, as well as competing contemporary accounts-including competing accounts urging religious views of the whole planet as holy, as well as nonreligious views of land as not holy at all.