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For 10/19-21 |
Assignment 7
Remember to "REFRESH."
Early Christianities
Was he human,
divine, a hybrid, or all of the above?
For Tuesday: (which is Monday in the
universe of Stevens):
Read this overview of Gnosticism and
the discovery of the texts at Nag Hammadi: PagelsAndGnosticIntro.htm
Listen to this 1/2 hour lecture, An
Overview of Gnosticism by Ehrman. EarlyChristianGnosticism-Overview-Ch5-15MB.mp4 Take notes on this. Make sure you read the thing above so
that you have some context for this.
The Nag Hammadi story in the reading above is necessary for this to make
much sense. If you are unable to listen to this, contact me and I'll put
up a different format. Otherwise
I'll assume that you were able to make it work.
Read this PDF from Pagels' Beyond Belief,
on the role of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the growth of Christianity, not
just any Christianity, but Roman Catholic Christianity. Pagels-Beyond_Belief-Constantine.pdf
[3.2MB]
Read this – Nero's Dining Room
Found: Nero's
Diningroom Found: ANSA [This
news broke just a few days ago.]
...and listen to this
– audio
slide show
Optional: Obituary for the man
who bought (using the MET's money) the Eurphronous Krater for $1,000,000. Dietrich
von Bothmer
For Wednesday: Exam I:
You can bring a single sheet of paper with anything on it what so ever. So far
I have posted review sheets up to Week 5.
I'll get 6 and 7 up asap.
These are mostly just class slide shows and don't always go over
specific readings. Remember to
study all of the readings... Livy, Plutarch, Watkins, Oxford Classical
Dictionary Readings, Silver, Plato, Homer, Josephus, Pagels, and many
more. Of course study the Davies
readings.
Make your sheet of paper, your
"cheet sheet," an
outline of what we have done so far.
Definitely put some big names and dates and places. Remind yourself of big points, or
storylines, or battle tactics or statistics...
Essay: At this point you should have done 3 essays, one was the
comic book on Polyphemus, and two others.
If you have only done 2 essays, you need to do this one. Feel free to use both this week's
readings and last week's as the basis for your essay. Questions you might consider: How is gnosticism similar to
Platonic philosophy? Do any of the ideas in gnosticism live on today? What if gnosticism or Arianism had won
and Roman Catholicism had lost... what would the world be like today? Perhaps write up a short essay exploring
that question. Go nuts.
Optional: [These readings can be
used any way you want. They could add to a regular essay or could be used as a
source for your larger project or could looked over just to see what sort of
stuff is out there.
Bowersock, G. W. "From
Emperor to Bishop: The Self-Conscious Transformation of Political Power in the Fourth
Century A.D." Classical Philology 81, no. 4 (1986): 298-307. Bowersock_revs_BlackAthena.pdf
[250KB]
Koestler, Helmut.
"Apocryphal and Canonical Gospels." The Harvard Theological Review 73, no.
1/2 (1980): 105-130. Koestler,Helumt_ApocryphasAndCanonicalGospels.pdf
[2.2MB]
Yamauchi, Edwin M. "Pre-Christian Gnosticism in the Nag Hamadi Texts?" Chruch History 48, no. 2 (1979): 129-141. Yamauchi_PreChristGnosticWriters.pdf [1.3MB]
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[EuroHist-HHS123-F09]
My
email – HHS123F09@mifami.org
Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish)
Early Christian Identifier found in Ephesus (Turkey).
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Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ ͑Υιός, Σωτήρ - Ancient Greek Jesus Christ, God's
Son, [and] Savior - English Translation |
Ἰησοῦς Jesus [Iesous] Χριστός Christ [Khristos] Θεοῦ God's [Theon] Υιός Son [Huios] Σωτήρ Savior [Soter] The first letters spell "ΙΧΘΥΣ" ...or FISH in Ancient Greek. |
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neros-dining-room-found.html
- has slide show
www.digitaljournal.com/article/279915