The Teaching Company: Ancient Near Eastern Mythology [Audio Lectures]

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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? The answer is that the ancients did imagine such things—or at least their world’s version of them—along with the same deep questions we ourselves yearn to solve. And we are connected to them in more ways than we ourselves might ever imagine.

Taught by: Professor Shalom L. Goldman—Emory University
Course Lecture Titles
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 8: The Ancient Gods—Egypt and Mesopotamia
Lecture 9: The Ancient Gods—Syria/Canaan
Lecture 10: The Creation Myths of Egypt and Mesopotamia
Lecture 11: Epics of the Gods—Syria/Canaan
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 16: The Individual and Society—Legal Texts
Lecture 17: The Individual and Society—Myth and Legend
Lecture 18: Love, Lust, and Poetry
Lecture 19: Marriage, Divorce, and Other Arrangements
Lecture 20: Kingship and the Gods
Lecture 21: Royal Historians, Poets, and Artists—Mesopotamia
Lecture 22: A Royal Couple—Myth and Reality
Lecture 23: Royal Historians, Poets, and Artists—Egypt
Lecture 24: Wisdom Literature; Conclusions

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