Ancient Israel
VU Course ID: | H305 |
Curriculum: | 27 units |
Fee: | FREE |
Textbooks: |
None |
Prerequisites: | None |
Developer: | Professor Daniel Fleming |
Provider: | New York University |
Recordable: | Yes / 2 CEUs |
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Course Description
You may think you know ancient Israel quite well, or you may be sure you know nothing. In either case, this course is designed to make the acquaintance from scratch. Ancient Israel is strange, sometimes shocking, diverse, and mostly hidden. It can be approached from archaeology and non-biblical writing as well as from the Bible as its most famous artifact. The instructor is a biblical scholar and student of ancient literature, so this class will lean toward what is written, embracing the Bible as a source. The course assumes no prior knowledge, and all knowledge is built from the ground up based on primary evidence, the actual material from the ancient world – including the Bible.
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Video 1 Ancient Israel: Introduction |
Video 2 Where to Begin: Israel in the Bible and Without it |
Video 3 Israel’s Roots |
Video 4 Another World Out There |
Video 5 What to Do With Genesis |
Video 6 God and Us |
Video 7 What to Do With the Bible |
Video 8 Israel Arrives |
Video 9 The Good Life: No Sovereign in Site |
Video 10 Women and Power |
Video 11 And Then There Were Kings |
Video 12 Love and Marriage |
Video 13 Archaeology’s 10th Century Solution |
Video 14 Israel and Judah: The Period of Two Kingdoms |
Video 15 The House of David |
Video 16 How the Other Side Lives (or, Israel in the East) |
Video 17 What if God Was Married |
Video 18 Judah Alone |
Video 19 Yellow Journalism and Purple Prose: Writing Like a Prophet |
Video 20 Judah the Ideal and the End of Judah |
Video 21 Empires, in the Biblical Context |
Video 22 Judah’s Bible |
Video 23 A World With One Power: The Impact of Empire |
Video 24 Away From Home: Jewish Refugees and Resettlement |
Video 25 When You Talk About Sex |
Video 26 We Need a Bible, Don’t We? The Work of the Early Jewish Community |
Video 27 Ancient Hebrew Psychology |
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