Video Lecture Series
Beginning Sunday, 3 September, the next video lecture series, The Holy Land Revealed, will be shown in the Sunday School room.
Using archeological discoveries and historical texts, this course will cover the ancient history of the Holy Land and will look also at other regions in the ancient Near East, including Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. The timespan we will cover begins with the First Temple period (c.960 B.C.—586 B.C.) and takes us through the Second Temple period, the time of Jesus, and the destruction of the temple (c.516 B.C.—A.D. 70).
Our historical sources for these periods of ancient history include the Hebrew Bible and related religious works, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the writings of Josephus and Philo, the New Testament, and the Mishnah and Talmud. We will also explore the archeology of the ancient Near East, which will complement our study of the historical sources by giving us a more complete picture of ancient societies.
This course will be taught by Professor Jodi Magness, an archaeologist with extensive field experience in Israel and the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Upcoming topics include:
5 May Judaism and Synagogues under Christian Rule
12 May Islam's Transformation of Jerusalem
19 May What and How Archaeology Reveals