Subject associations REL 246 / JDS 246 Term Fall 2021 Instructors Martha Himmelfarb View additional detailsfor Ancient Judaism from Alexander to the Rise of Islam (HA) Registrar description This course offers an introduction to the development of ancient Judaism during the eventful millennium from the establishment of the Torah as the constitution of the Jewish people in the fifth century BCE--an event that some have seen as marking the transition from biblical religion to Judaism--to the completion of the other great canonical Jewish document, the Babylonian Talmud, in perhaps the sixth century CE. Email this page Print this page