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Category Archives: Archaeology
NYU rolls out free course on Ancient Israel
New York University recently began rolling out a new addition to its free open education courses on its YouTube channel. The new arrival is Ancient Israel (YouTube) taught by Daniel Fleming. So far NYU has posted only six lectures from … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Bible, Courses, History, Videos, YouTube courses
Tagged ancient Israel, ancient Near East, Daniel Fleming, New York University, open education
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Ready, set, decipher
Now’s your chance to help scholars decipher a treasure trove of ancient texts and maybe take part in the discovery of the next lost Greek play or unknown gospel. No knowledge of ancient languages required — just a computer, a … Continue reading
Of skeletons, pottery and Indiana Jones
I once spent a year studying at Israel’s Hebrew University, where I took a spectacularly boring course in archaeology. Indeed it took some effort to make archaeology boring in that setting, surrounded as we were by monuments and ruins going … Continue reading
Why the West Rules – For Now
Ian Morris is nothing if not ambitious. A professor of history and archaeology at Stanford University, Morris has written a new book, Why the West Rules – For Now in which he attempts an audacious unified field theory of history … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Archaeology, Books, Five-star professors, History, Idea of the week, iTunesU
Tagged book review, Ian Morris, Stanford University
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Does God have a physical body?
Brace yourself for this one: the God of the Hebrew Bible has a real physical body. That’s what biblical scholar Benjamin Sommer argues in his lecture The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel: Part I (website, iTunes) … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Bible, Five-star professors, History, Idea of the week, iTunesU, Jewish studies, Lectures, Religion
Tagged ancient Israel, Benjamin Sommer
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Readers’ picks
Here are some recent suggestions from readers. Reading Marx’s Capital (website) David Harvey, City University of New York (CUNY) A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures. Recommended by Theages. Foreign Language … Continue reading
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A History of Jerusalem
How did a provincial hill-town, with no significant natural resources and far from major trade routes, become a holy city for millions of people? That’s the question archaeologist and biblical scholar Robert Cargill seeks to answer in his fascinating new … Continue reading
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Tagged Jerusalem, Robert Cargill
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Reading Homer as an anthropologist
What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primary text to help explain an ancient society? That’s what archaeologist Tara Carter does in lecture 21 and lecture 22 … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Anthropology, Archaeology, Courses, Five-star professors, History, Literature
Tagged Iliad, Mycenaen Greece, Tara Carter, Trojan War, UC San Diego
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Why we stopped foraging and started farming
The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars argue about why it happened, and propose three main conflicting theories. These theories, and the difficulties in domesticating plants and animals are the subjects of … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural revolution, Tara Carter, UCSD
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Archaeologist Isabelle Pafford teaches new course
University of Santa Clara archaeologist Isabelle Pafford is back with a new course about heroic narratives, Heroes & Heroism (iTunes). The course covers heroic figures in ancient works like the Iliad, the Gilgamesh epic, and the Bhagavad Gita, and explores … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, Heroes, Isabelle Pafford
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