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Jeffrey Brodd

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courses :: education :: scholarly presentations :: research projects :: professional associations contact information Title Associate Professor Office Hours Office Telephone Email Address see faculty index Mailing Address: Department of Humanities & Religious Studies CSU, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6083 courses :: FALL 2006 HRS 10 - Arts and Ideas of the West: Ancient to Medieval HRS 117 - Paganism in the Roman World LIBA 200A - Culture and Expression: Prehistory to the Late Antiquity SPRING 2007 HRS 114 - The Culture of Classical Rome HRS 120 - Reason and Revelation: The Origins of Western Culture HRS 190 - Topics in the Humanities and Religious Studies semester syllabi education :: Ph.D. Religious Studies - University of California, Santa Barbara M.A. Religious Studies - University of California, Santa Barbara B.A. Philosophy and Mathematics - St. Olaf College, Minnesota scholarly presentations :: "Animal Sacrifice in the Later Roman Empire," paper presented at Variationes Lectionum: Approaches to Roman Religion, University of Mississippi, October, 2004 "Julian, Myth, and Platonism," paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion "Coming to Terms with the 'R' Word: Religion and the Non-religious," lecture presented to the Sacramento, CA chapter of Atheists and Other Freethinkers, June 8, 2003 "Peace Not War: World Religions Shaping the Future," lecture presented to the Renaissance Society, California State University, Sacramento, May 2, 2003 World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery (Saint Mary's Press, 1998) "Jesus the Jew, Rabbi and Radical," paper presented at Tau Center, Winona, Minnesota, March, 1997 "Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple." Bible Review (October, 1995):32-38 "Christians, Jews, and Julian on the Attempt to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple," paper presented at the1993 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Apostate, Philo-Semite, or Syncretic Neoplatonist? Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara) Gnostic Morality: Asceticism, Libertinism, and the "Acosmic" Theory of Hans Jonas (M.A. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara) research projects :: Sacrifice in Roman religion The concept of myth in the Platonic tradition Myths, visions, and theories of the afterlife across cultures Pedagogical approaches to world religions professional associations :: American Academy of Religion Society of Biblical Literature