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04745agm a2200517Ia 4500 001 FC16C85E2E7A11E49F04F9E8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140828011723 007 vd cvaizu 008 051012s2005 vau000 vleng d 020 $a 9781598030358 020 $a 1598030353 028 40 $a 6340 $b Teaching Company 035 $a (OCoLC)62047313 040 $a ROC $b eng $c ROC $d DTM $d IBI $d OCLCQ $d VP@ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a f-ua--- $a f-ua--- 050 4 $a BL687 $b .H655 2005 100 1 $a Holland, Glenn Stanfield, $d 1952- 245 10 $a Religion in the ancient Mediterranean world $h [videorecording] / $c Glenn S. Holland. 250 $a Library ed. 260 $a Chantilly, Va. : $b Teaching Co., $c ©2005. 300 $a 8 videodiscs (1440 min.) : $b sd., color ; $c 4 3/4 in. + $e 4 course guidebooks (64, 68, 68, 72 pages ; 22 cm). 490 1 $a The great courses 538 $a DVD, region 1. 500 $a Accompanying guides include biographical information, lecture notes and outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references. 500 $a Course no. 6340. 511 0 $a Lectures delivered by Professor Glenn S. Holland, Allegheny College. 500 $a Forty-eight lectures on 8 discs in 4 containers (30 min./lecture). 520 $a "This course of 48 lectures is an introduction to the religious cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world, from the earliest indications of human religious practices during the prehistoric era to the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity in the 4th century of the Common Era. The course examines what we can recover of the religious activities of prehistoric human beings before considering in depth the religious cultures of the great ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The emphasis throughout the course is not only on the rituals and mythology of a civiliation's official religious culture but also on the beliefs, practices, and yearnings of the common person"--Page 1 of guidebook. 505 00 $g pt. 2. Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. $t Early prophecy in Israel. $t What is religion? -- $g Early prehistoric religion -- $t Prehistoric religion, the neolithic era -- $t Egypt, a unique religious culture -- $t Egyptian creation stories and their meaning -- $g pt. 1. Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. $t The Egyptian pantheon -- $t Egyptian myths of kingship -- $t Egyptian myths of the underworld -- $t Egypt, the power of goddesses -- $t Egypt, religion in everyday life -- $t Egypt, the beginning of wisdom -- $g pt. 2. Disc 3. Lectures 13-18. $t Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers -- $t Mesopotamia, stories of creation -- $t Mesopotamia, Inanna the Goddess -- $t Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh the King -- $t Mesopotamia, the search for eternal life -- $t Mesopotamia, the great flood -- $g pt. 2. Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. $t Ancient concepts of the divine -- $t The gods of Syria-Palestine -- $t Israel's ancestral history -- $t Israel's national history -- $t Prophecy in the ancient Near East -- $t Early prophecy in Israel. 505 00 $g pt. 4. Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. $t Conclusion: persisting ideas and yearnings. $t Israel's great crisis -- $t Syria-Palestine, the problem of evil -- $t Early Aegean civilizations -- $t Religious culture in the Iliad and the Odyssey -- $t Religious culture in archaic Greece -- $g pt. 3. Disc 6. Lectures 31-36. $t Greece, how things came to be -- $t Greece, the goddess -- $t The classical era in Greece -- $t Greece, philosophy as religion -- $t Religious culture in the Hellenistic world -- $t Mystery religions in the Hellenistic world -- $g pt. 4. Disc 7. Lectures 37-42. $t Mystery religions from the east -- $t Roman religious culture before the empire -- $t Rome, saviors and divine men -- $t Rome, divination, astrology, and magic -- $t Rome, critics and charlatans -- $t Jesus of Nazareth as a figure in history -- $g pt. 4. Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. $t Creating Jesus communities -- $t Living and dying for the God(s) -- $t Women's religious roles in the early empire -- $t The Jesus movement in the Greco-Roman world -- $t The death and rebirth of the old gods -- $t Conclusion: persisting ideas and yearnings. 651 0 $a Mediterranean Region $x Religion. 651 0 $a Mediterranean Region $x History $y To 476. 651 0 $a Egypt $x History. $x History. 650 7 $a Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093763 651 7 $a Egypt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208755 651 7 $a Mediterranean Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239752 648 7 $a To 476 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a Teaching Company. 830 0 $a Great courses (Videorecording) 941 $a 1 945 $a dvv 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728020128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FC16C85E2E7A11E49F04F9E8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b DIVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search