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History: Antiquity
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1. Orientation12 Steps
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1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (9 min video)
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1.1 - Read Table of Contents
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1.2 – Why Do We Study? (14 min video)
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1.2 - Read James Schall Quote
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1.3 – Why Do We Study History? (8 min video)
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1.3 - Read Psalm 78
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1.4 – What Each Student Needs (7 min video)
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1.4 - Read Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes
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1.5 – Course Assignments (6 min video)
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1.6 – Portfolio (4 min video)
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1.5 - Lesson 1 Portfolio
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1.5 - Lesson 1 Exam
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1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (9 min video)
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2. Imago Dei: Creation12 Steps
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2.1 – The Character of God (22 min video)
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2.1 - Read the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 2
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2.2 – A Creation Story Like No Other (20 min video)
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2.2 - Read Genesis 1-2:3
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2.3 – Interpretations of Genesis (19 min video)
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2.3 - Read Enuma Elish
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2.4 – The Seven Days (24 min video)
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2.4 - Read Genesis 2:4-25
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2.5 – A Creature Like No Other (18 min video)
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2.5 - Lesson 2 Exam
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2.5 – Lesson 2 Portfolio
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2.6 – Project: Creation Week (2 min video)
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2.1 – The Character of God (22 min video)
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3. The Two Cities: The Fall & Two Lineages11 Steps
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3.1 – The Problem of Evil (21 min video)
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3.1 - Read The Westminster Confession of Faith
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3.2 – The Fall & the Curse (17 min video)
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3.2 - Read Genesis 3
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3.3 – The Two Cities (17 min video)
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3.3 - Read Genesis 4 & 5
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3.4 – The Flood (19 min video)
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3.4 - Read Genesis 6-9:17
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3.5 – Prehistoric Man (25 min video)
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3.5 – Lesson 3 Portfolio
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3.5 - Lesson 3 Exam
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3.1 – The Problem of Evil (21 min video)
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4. Look On My Works, Ye Mighty: Babel & Mesopotamia11 Steps
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4.1 – The Reliability and Chronology of the Old Testament (22 min video)
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4.1 – Read Select Passages from the Old Testament
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4.2 – Babel & Sargon (26 min video)
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4.2 - Read Genesis 10 - 11 and the Nam Shub
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4.3 – Mesopotamian Culture (25 min video)
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4.3 - Read Selection from The Epic of Gilgamesh
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4.4 – Creation Myths, Sumer, and Akkad (24 min video)
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4.4 - Read Babylonian Creation Myth
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4.5 – Babylon and Mesopotamian Religion (14 min video)
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4.5 – Lesson 4 Portfolio
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4.5 - Lesson 4 Exam
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4.1 – The Reliability and Chronology of the Old Testament (22 min video)
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ASSIGNMENT:
Complete Exam #4
- How does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” reveal both man’s pride in his power and his limits?
- For what reasons is the Old Testament a reliable text?
- Why do chronology and dating the events of the Old Testament matter?
- How is city-building an important feature of the City of Man culture found in both Cain’s line and in the history of Mesopotamia?
- For what reasons did the people build the Tower of Babel?
- Why might Eridu be the site of Babel?
- Who was Nimrod?
- Who was Sargon I?
- What does Mesopotamia mean, and where is it located?
- What were Mesopotamian cities and governments like?
- What was the purpose of the ziggurat?
- What was cuneiform? What is the content of the vast majority of cuneiform tablets discovered?
- How does the Mesopotamian creation account both compare and contrast to the creation story of Genesis?
- What does The Epic of Gilgamesh reveal about Mesopotamian or Sumerian culture?
- Of what character was Hammurabi? How does his law code differ from the Old Testament’s?