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3.00 Credits
Staff. Starting with the Return from Babylonia up until the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism was transformed from a local ethnic religious cult to a broad-based, diverse, and often fragmented sectarian religion. Many outside cultures and civilizations, from the ancient Persians to the Imperial Romans, influenced the Jews and Judaism through language, culture, and political contacts. We will study these cultural contacts and conflicts that caused Jews in the Second Commonwealth to develop competing understandings of Judaism. (Same as JWST 315.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Carter. The cultures of the Cycladic Islands, Crete, and the Greek mainland during the Bronze Age (ca. 3200-1150 B.C.E.). Emphasis is on the major and minor arts of the Minoans and Mycenaeans and how this material can be used to reconstruct the societies, cultures, and religions of the Aegean Bronze Age. (Same as ARHS 316 and HISA 316.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Carter. Greek arts (architecture, sculpture, and painting) and material culture in the light of social, intellectual, and historical developments from the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) to the end of the Hellenistic period (31 B.C.E.). (Same as ARHS 317.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Lusnia. Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Rome and the Roman Empire, their sources, and their history from the Etruscan period through the 4th century C.E. (Same as ARHS 318.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Lusnia. A survey of Roman culture through the study of the town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The focus is on the society, politics, religion, domestic life, entertainment, economy, and art of Pompeii and the surrounding region in the early imperial period. (Same as ARHS 319 and HISA 319.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course examines Greek religion in its social and historical context, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach incorporating archaeological, artistic, literary, and epigraphic evidence. The course begins with a survey of the major concepts connected with Greek religion, including the types of beings offered worship, the delineation of sacred space, and the forms of ritual. Emphasis is placed on the social and political function of ritual, that is, on ritual as the enacted representation of cultural values and social roles. The second section of the course investigates the major Greek divinities, their iconography, mythology, and cult. The course concludes with a study of the phenomenon of mystery cults, surveying the forms of these cults in the Greek world and discussing their continuation under the Romans. (Same as HISA 318.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course is designed to introduce students to the history of the Ancient Christian movement within the Roman Empire. It illustrates the historical developments through the discussion of the use of the scripture, the production of new literature and emergence of the canon of the New Testament writings from the second through the fourth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course is an examination of the modern quest for the earthly Jesus behind the veil of ecclesiastical doctrines and dogmas. This examination utilizes modern methods of literary, historical, and hermeneutical criticism to sift through layers of traditions and interpretations. It will involve reading ancient as well as modern interpretations of the life of Jesus. It will explore the Old Quest as well as the recently revived New Quest for the historical Jesus.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. The historical, literary, exegetical, and ideological investigation into the life and thought (theology) of the Apostle Paul. It will investigate the “historical†Paul and the Paul of legend and ecclesiastical tradition. This course will also explore the phenomenon of Paulinism and the importance of the appropriation of the Pauline tradition for orthodox and heretical movements.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course traces the history and development of Gnosticism in its pre-Christian forms in Egypt and in Jewish wisdom traditions to its Valentinian Christian manifestations. The largest “heretical†movement in early Christianity was the greatest challenge the early church experienced.
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