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Ancient Near Eastern Mythology.txt
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Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
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General Information
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Author: The Teaching Company
Lectures: 24 (30 minutes/lecture)
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Lectures
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Part I
Lecture 1: Studying Ancient Near Eastern Myth
Lecture 2: The Emergence of Civilization in the Near East
Lecture 3: Hittites and Canaanites
Lecture 4: Archaeology, Science, and Ideology
Lecture 5: Principles of Writing Systems
Lecture 6: Literary and Religious Aspects of Myth
Lecture 7: Ancient Near Eastern Myths and the Bible
Lecture 10: The Creation Myths of Egypt and Mesopotamia
Lecture 12: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Part One
Part II
Lecture 13: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Part Two
Lecture 14: Myths of Death and Destruction, Part One
Lecture 15: Myths of Death and Destruction, Part Two
Lecture 18: Love, Lust, and Poetry
Lecture 19: Marriage, Divorce, and Other Arrangements
Lecture 20: Kingship and the Gods
Lecture 24: Wisdom Literature; Conclusions
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Course Description
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In a time seemingly more devoted to practical realities with each passing
year, why would we want to study myths? What can the fables of ancient
civilizations long since gone to dust tell us about the world we must deal
with today, where each morning plunges many of us anew into a frenzied
pace of professional tasks, madcap scheduling, and day-to-day concerns on
a scale those ancients never could have imagined, leaving us precious little
time to ponder the deeper questions about life itself and our place in the
world?
And we are connected to them in more ways than we ourselves might ever imagine.
They looked out upon their crops and wondered if the lands on which their lives
depended would continue to be fruitful. And they looked toward the skies or across
wondered if the gods who ruled them were displeased, and how to placate them if
they were. And they wondered why, despite all of their efforts, misfortune still fell
upon them, and what this portended about the fate of humanity itself.
And in their myths, which contemporary scholars are still wresting from the past,
rules of love and marriage, how to raise their children, the rituals of worship, and the
relationship they would have to their gods.
These are, of course, the same answers those of us in modern times spend our own
different perspectives, we can learn an extraordinary amount about not only their
world and how they viewed it, but about ourselves as well. And we also gain the
Provocative Parallels With the Old Testament
Ancient Near Eastern Mythology opens a remarkably clear window into that
ancient world, made all the more inviting because of the provocative parallels the
those parallels provide for us to gain new perspectives on the wellsprings of the
religious heritage shared by so many.
They have had to painstakingly gather what they know from many genres, including
claim the reign of an actual historical ruler to be hundreds of years, thus revealing
embedded mythic material; and archeological finds, from pottery to ancient texts.
And though many approaches have been taken to the study of myth, your
experience them from four different thematic perspectives:
things: the origins of the earth; the creation of human beings; the social
order of the times and the need for kings to stay in power; the great
questions of human life such as issues about death or suffering...
gods we are really gaining an understanding of the dynamics of royal
families...
sacred narrative, so that we see how people of the time expressed their ideas
about the divine and about the world, and especially how to achieve and
maintain the cosmic harmony that was essential to life not being disrupted;
and...
that is borne out by the appearance of universal themes in all mythologies
telling us something about human psychology.
A Wealth of Insight From a Treasure Trove of Material
sharing, rather than lecturing about, a remarkably varied assortment of poems,
stories, anecdotes, and insights, including:
from The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Noah, or the episodes of the
infant set afloat in a reed basket in both the autobiographical The Sargon
the strategy of famed British archaeologist Leonard Woolley, who used this
very controversy to ensure funding for his research;
whom are embodied, in life and death, respectively, Horus, god of kingship,
and Osiris, god of the dead;
what is now Syria), and the other peoples of the ancient Near East, the fear
differs from the Song of Songs that appears in so many church Bibles;
a major difference in the way in which Egyptian and Mesopotamian society
differed with respect to both marriage and adultery;
elements, a recognition of the need for statecraft, and also a wonderful detail
that gives insight into Sumerian ideas about the mythic origins of writing,
which made their civilization possible;
the ancient Near East. Attributed to Enheduanna (who was appointed by her
father, Sargon, as priestess of Sin, the moon goddess), the poem was, along
with The Sargon Legend, a rare instance of two surviving documents from the
same family, and gives us information about the place of women in the rituals
of ancient Near East culture; and
including the discovery of the Amarna letters, a treasure trove of diplomatic
correspondence that revealed a surprising sense of internationalism and
pragmatism by the Egyptians.
In these and other glimpses of a mist-shrouded world, Ancient Near Eastern
Mythology sharpens our view of our own world.
About the professor:
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