1.
Talking About Ancient Religious Cultures
2.
What Is Religion?
3.
Early Prehistoric Religion
4.
Prehistoric Religion — The Neolithic Era
5.
Egypt — a Unique Religious Culture
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Egyptian Creation Stories and Their Meaning
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The Egyptian Pantheon
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Egyptian Myths of Kingship
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Egyptian Myths of the Underworld
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Egypt — The Power of Goddesses
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Egypt — Religion in Everyday Life
12.
Egypt — The Beginning of Wisdom
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Mesopotamia — The Land Between the Rivers
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Mesopotamia — Stories of Creation
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Mesopotamia — Inanna the Goddess
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Mesopotamia — Gilgamesh the King
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Mesopotamia — The Search for Eternal Life
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Mesopotamia — The Great Flood
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Ancient Concepts of the Divine
20.
The Gods of Syria-Palestine
21.
Israel's Ancestral History
22.
Israel's National History
23.
Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
24.
Early Prophecy in Israel
25.
Classical Israelite Prophecy
26.
Israel's Great Crisis
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Syria-Palestine — The Problem of Evil
28.
Early Aegean Civilizations
29.
Religious Culture in the Iliad and the Odyssey
30.
Religious Culture in Archaic Greece
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Greece — How Things Came to Be
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Greece — The Goddess
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The Classical Era in Greece
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Greece — Philosophy as Religion
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Religious Culture in the Hellenistic World
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Mystery Religions in the Hellenistic World
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Mystery Religions From the East
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Roman Religious Culture Before the Empire
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Rome — Saviors and Divine Men
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Rome — Divination, Astrology, and Magic
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Rome — Critics and Charlatans
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Jesus of Nazareth as a Figure in History
43.
Creating Jesus Communities
44.
Living and Dying for the God (S)
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Women's Religious Roles in the Early Empire
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The Jesus Movement in the Greco-Roman World
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The Death and Rebirth of the Old Gods
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Conclusion — Persisting Ideas and Yearnings