Religion in the ancient Mediterranean world.[videorecording (DVD)] /Glenn S. Holland.

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Community of Christ Library

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disc 1, lecture 1. Talking about ancient religious cultures ; lecture 2. What is religion? ; lecture 3. Early prehistoric religion ; lecture 4. Prehistoric religion, the neolithic era ; lecture 5. Egypt, a unique religious culture ; lecture 6. Egyptian creation stories and their meaning -- disc 2, lecture 7. The Egyptian pantheon ; lecture 8. Egyptian myths of kingship ; lecture 9. Egyptian myths of the underworld ; lecture 10. Egypt, the power of goddesses ; lecture 11. Egypt, religion in everyday life ; lecture 12. Egypt, the beginning of wisdom.^^disc 3, lecture 13. Mesopotamia--the land between the rivers ; lecture 14. Mesopotamia--stories of creation ; lecture 15. Mesopotamia--Inanna the goddess ; lecture 16. Mesopotamia--Gilgamesh the king ; lecture 17. Mesopotamia--the search for eternal life ; lecture 18. Mesopotamia--the great flood -- disc 4, lecture 19. Ancient concepts of the divine ; lecture 20. The gods of Syria-Palestine ; lecture 21. Israel's ancestral history ; lecture 22. Israel's national history ; lecture 23. Prophecy in the ancient Near East ; lecture 24. Early prophecy in Israel.^^disc 5, lecture 25, Classical Israelite prophecy ; lecture 26. Israel's great crisis ; lecture 27. Syria-Palestine--the problem of evil ; 28. Early Aegean civilizations ; lecture 29. Religious culture in the Illiad and the Odyssey ; lecture 30. Religious culture in archaic Greece -- disc 6, lecture 31. Greece--how things came to be ; lecture 32. Greece--the goddess ; lecture 33. The classical era in Greece ; lecture 34. Greece--philosophy as religion ; lecture 35. Religious culture in the Hellenistic world ; lecture 36. Mystery religions in the Hellenistic world.^^disc 7, lecture 37. Mystery religions from the East ; lecture 38. Roman religious culture before the empire ; lecture 39. Rome--saviors and divine men ; lecture 40. Rome--divination, astrology, and magic ; lecture 41. Rome--criticis and Charlatans ; lecture 42. Jesus of Nazareth as a figure in history -- disc 8, lecture 43. Creating Jesus communities ; lecture 44. Living and dying for the god(s) ; lecture 45. Women's religious roles in the early empire ; lecture 46. The Jesus Movement in the Greco-Roman world ; lecture 47. The death and rebirth of the old gods ; lecture 48. Conclusion--persisting ideas and yearnings. 8 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. +1 course guidebook (295 p. ; 20 cm.)

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DVD

Place Published

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Chantilly, Va.

Date Published

circa 2005

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DVD PT.2

ISBN

1598030353 (set), 9781598030358 (set)