syllabi-topic: Late Antiquity - 13 results

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Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Philip Harland
Institution: York Institution

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Course Year: 2012

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A 2012 course by Phil Harland at York University “explores practices associated with honouring the gods in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, particularly during the first two centuries of the common era.”

Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire

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Instructor: Philip Harland
Institution: York University

Course Term: Winter
Course Year: 2018

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A 2012 course by Philip Harland at York University “examines cases of ethnic, social, and political conflict relating to honours for the god(s) in the Roman empire.”

Angels and Demons in ‘Biblical’ Folklore

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: John Reeves
Institution: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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A course by John Reeves at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte provides a “close reading of a large number of narrative and ritual texts which feature such characters [angels and demons] in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the variegated roles they play in pre-modern Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious contexts.”

Ancient Religious Rhetoric

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Instructor: Jim Watts
Institution: Syracuse University

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2011

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A 2011 course by Jim Watts at Syracuse University uses rhetoric to study religious discourse and “ancient Near Eastern literature as a resource for the study of both comparative rhetoric and religion.”

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

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A 2009 course by Stuart Tyson Smith at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Graeco-Roman Religions

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Instructor: Alyssa Beall
Institution: Syracuse University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2002

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A 2002 course by Patricia Miller at Syracuse University “introduces students to religious texts and traditions” in the Graeco-Roman culture “which flourished in the geographical area of the Mediterranean basin during the first five centuries of the common era.”

Gods, Heroes, Magic, and Mysteries: Religion in Ancient Greece

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Robert W. Allison and Loring M. Danforth
Institution: Bates College

Course Term: Winter
Course Year: 1996

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A 1996 course by Robert Allison and Loring Danforth at Bates College “is a study of ancient Greek religion from both a historical and an anthropological perspective.”

God: The Beginnings

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Course Level-Format: graduate  |   undergraduate
Instructor: Eugene C. McAfee
Institution: Harvard College

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Course Year: 1997

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A 1997 course by Eugene McAfee at Harvard University examines “the figure of ‘El as he is portrayed in the mythological and cultic texts from Ugarit, and as he is found in inscriptions from ancient Syria-Palestine.”

Ancient Near Eastern Religions & Cultures

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Jim Watts
Institution: Syracuse University

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2016

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A 2016 course by Jim Watts at Syracuse University examines “the interaction of culture and religion by examining the social contexts of ancient religious ideas and practices through close readings of texts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine and Israel.”

Ancient Greek Religion

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Patricia Miller
Institution: Syracuse University

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2000

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