| UNIT |
CONTEXT |
TOPIC |
ASSIGNMENT
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01 |
CHALCOLITHIC
4000-3000 BCE
Pre-Dynastic
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MYTH
Creation
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NRSV Genesis 1-5 (HB3-7)
CoS Memphite Theology; Enuma elish
CR01 Philo Phoinikeia; Hesiod Theogony; Esna
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Nekhen/Hierakonpolis
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| 02 |
Uruk Period
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MYTH
Destruction
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NRSV Gen 6-10; CR02 Enoch; [Apollod] Library
CoS Gilgamesh XI; Atrahasis; Cow of Heaven
CR02 Ovid Metamorphoses; Berossus
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DC pts |
NRSV Gen 11, CR02 Etemenanki |
| 03
| EARLY BRONZE
3000-2000 BCE
Old Kingdom
|
MYTH
Syncretism, I
|
CoS Ba‘al Cycle
CoS Elkunirsha & Ashertu
CR03 Astarte & The Sea |
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Menefer/Memphis
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| 04 |
Sumerian Cities
Akkadian Empire
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MYTH
Syncretism, II |
Plutarch Isis & Osiris 12-19
Plutarch Isis & Osiris 54-64; CR04 Horus & Seth
CoS Telpinus; Adapa; Ishtar |
|
FIRST INTER. |
DC pts |
Library of Congress |
| 05 |
MIDDLE BRONZE
2000-1550 BCE
Middle Kingdom |
EPIC
Heroes, I |
CR05 Gilgamesh I-IV
CR05 Gilgamesh V
CR05 Homer Odyssey IX |
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Itj-Tawy |
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| 06 |
Old Assyria
Old Babylonia |
EPIC
Heroes, II |
CR06 Gilgamesh VI-VIII
CR06 Gilgamesh IX-XI
CoS Aqhat
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|
DC pts |
Museum of the Bible |
| 07 |
|
EPIC
Journies
|
CoS Sinuhe; Shipwrecked Sailor
NRSV Gen 37-42 (Joseph)
NRSV Gen 43-50; CR07 Dundes 2002 |
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SECOND INTER. |
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| 08 |
LATE BRONZE
1550-1200 BCE
New Kingdom
|
FOLKLORE
Motifs
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CoS Two Brothers; 7 Lean; CR08 Homer Iliad V
NRSV II Kgs 18-19; CR08 Hdt; Aesop
NRSV Ex 2:1-10; CoS Sargon; CR08 Hdt; Livy |
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Wast/Thebes |
DC pts |
CR06 Hatsepsut; Vatican Obelisk |
| 09 |
Middle Assyria
Kassite Babylonia
Hittite Empire |
HYMNS |
CoS Hymns to the Sun; Hymn to Osiris
CoS Great Hymn to the Aten
NRSV Pss 104
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Akhetaten/Amarna |
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| 10 |
Amurru (Ugarit)
Canaan (Byblos) |
AFTERLIFE |
CoS Pyramid Texts
CoS Coffin Texts
CoS Book of the Dead;
CR10 Orphic Tablets
|
|
THIRD INTER. |
DC pts
|
Freer|Sackler Archives; CR10 Achaemenids |
| 11 |
IRON AGE
1200-330 BCE
Late Period
|
WISDOM
Wise Sufferer
|
NRSV Job 1-21; CoS Ludlul Bêl Nêmeqi
NRSV Job 38-42; CoS Babylonian Theodicy
CoS Oblidging Slave; A Man & his God
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Zau/Saïs |
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| 12 |
Neo-Assyria
Neo-Babylonia
Persia
|
WISDOM
Teachings
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CoS Eloquent Peasant; CR12 Loyalist Teachings
CoS Instructions of Amenemhet
CoS Amenemope; NRSV Prov 22-24
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DC pts
|
“House of the Temple” Masonic Lodge |
| 13 |
GRECO-ROMAN
330-30 BCE
Ptolemies/Seleucids
|
WISDOM
Dialogues
|
CR13 Achaemenids;
CoS Eloquent Peasant
CR13 Ahiqar;
CoS Man & his ba; Hoe & Plow
CR13 Palm & Tamarisk; CoS Dua-khety
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Alexandria |
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| 14 |
30 BCE-640 CE
Romans/Parthians
& Sassanids |
POWER |
CoS Life of the Scribe; At the Cleaners
CoS Amarna Letters; Wenamun; Mesha
NRSV II Kgs 3, 17; CoS Piye
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REVIEW |
DC pts |
FINAL |
